unwished
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of unwished
Example Sentences
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Unloved am I, and unwished for, by him whom I have wedded.
From The Story and Song of Black Roderick by Dora Sigerson Shorter
The opportunity for which the most illustrious and the most famous of Americans have longed and labored and pined offered itself to him, unsought, unwished, and he smiled it away.
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis
Back to the mind of the girl, standing motionless where he had left her, came, unwished and unbidden, the memory of a summer night out yonder beside the flowing river.
From Princess by M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland
The people of Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, etc., take it as a newspaper, and regard the essays and poems as intruders unwished for and unwelcome.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
It is for this reason that the gift of old age is unwished for, and the prospect of future life without encouragement.
From Some Private Views by James Payn
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