How To Use Unenviable In A Sentence
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Much derided, but with an unenviable job.
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Treasurer Ella Flynn has the unenviable task of ensuring that the little funding the centre gets is put to the best possible use.
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Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth.
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The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
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The job of editing this book must have been an unenviable one.
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The guard commander had an unenviable job.
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It is an unenviable task but he must stand strong for the longterm good of racing.
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It put me in the unenviable position of having to lie.
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Another unenviable record is the 19 stabbings that occurred at a gig in Boston, although they were not a reaction to the band's music but the result of a nutter running amok through the crowd.
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So someone had the unenviable task of condensing a five decade recording career into one teeny tiny album.
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He has an unenviable task of improving national and international competitiveness for Scottish food products.
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Just what is it that makes the stingiest people in Britain pinch the pennies to such extremes that they have won the unenviable moniker of tightwad?
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Cemetery managers, like parishes, have inherited an unenviable legacy from past generations.
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Spain will announce the winner of one of the most unenviable jobs in Europe today.
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Over the years the Humber Bridge has built up an unenviable reputation for attracting would-be suicides.
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Mir was in an unenviable position.
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I had the unenviable task of being escorted by gardaí to cut off the water.
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She added her thanks to the judging panel who had the unenviable task of selecting the winning companies.
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He has an unenviable record of ill - health.
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Because of their lightness they don't need an airfield to take off or land and in their early days they had an unenviable safety record.
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Remarkably, Freddie came through a second time and left hospital with the unenviable task of learning to walk again.
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Ireland might hold the unenviable title of being the most litigious country in the world.
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She had the unenviable task of making the first few phone calls.
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They now find themselves with an unenviable choice.
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In closing, I speculate that writing such a book is an unenviable task; it just invites criticism.
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In many ways the local authority has its hands tied and is in the same unenviable position as councils across the country.
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The school secretary Mary Yates had the unenviable task of counting all the coins.
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It is an unenviable situation, and not one that should make us gloat.
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His abrasive manner has won him an unenviable notoriety.
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For a number of years the pub, formerly called Munnelly's, has had an unenviable reputation for attracting trouble.
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The clashes put America in an unenviable position.
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Much derided, but with an unenviable job.
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Environmental enforcement officers had the unenviable task of clearing the tree of the waste.
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Yesterday we said that we're now in the unenviable position of having to climb down from the consequences of our own boneheaded policies.
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It is an unenviable task but he must stand strong for the longterm good of racing.
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In 1326, when he was about fourteen, he was a happelapin (kitchen boy) to Queen Jeanne of France and was charged with the unenviable task of turning the great roasting spits before the open fire.
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With hindsight, his position was unenviable in the extreme.
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in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign
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Whoever wins will inherit an unenviable legacy.
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There was no counselling in his day and he had the unenviable task of driving the first train back to Dublin after the scene had been cleared.
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In this case it was up to the personal preferences of one man with one of the most unenviable jobs imaginable.
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Competing with memories of landmark movies is an unenviable task.
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The job of editing this book must have been an unenviable one.
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The male is tiny, far less showy, and has a unenviable time of it.
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It had occupied a favourable, though unenviable, position at the crux of two world wars.
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These scholars had the unenviable task of explaining why their patrons eventually sieged, overran, and sacked Carthage in a door-to-door killing spree that left only fifty thousand survivors out of an estimated population of seven hundred thousand.
David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
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He has an unenviable record of ill - health.
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From this period, the last twenty years of his life, he gained an unenviable and undeserved reputation for being disagreeable and dishonest.
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As such, he had an unenviable choice between representing himself and abandoning his claim.
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To complicate issues further, one of the two advancers in the group has the unenviable task of facing the other tournament favourite, France, in the second round.
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Either way the president is now left with an unenviable choice.
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Getting the selection right for the South Africa game is looking more and more of an unenviable task.
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The eurozone's unenviable position as the catalyst of the recent turmoil has made it deeply unpopular.
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It put me in the unenviable position of having to lie.
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These workers had earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
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Generally speaking the property of lycanthropy in Spain appears to be hereditary; and, as one would naturally expect in a country so pronouncedly Roman Catholic, to rid the lycanthropist of his unenviable property it is the custom to resort to exorcism.
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The job of editing this book must have been an unenviable one.
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They have the unenviable task of supervising the most dangerous prison in the country.
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Starting a film festival from scratch is an exciting but unenviable task.
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Much derided, but with an unenviable job.
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He was in the unenviable position of having to choose between imprisonment or exile.
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Against that background, it has been suggested to us that our task is an unenviable one; that may be right, it may be wrong.
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He has an unenviable reputation for getting injured, which he claims is undeserved.
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Their security looks likely to be precarious, their task unenviable.
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Cumbria has the unenviable reputation of being the county worst hit by the virus with 877 confirmed outbreaks and more than 1.1 million animals culled in total.
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The government faces an unenviable task in putting the pieces together again.
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With Walsh under suspension, the unenviable job of marking Bull has been handed to Simon Grayson.
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Getting the selection right for the South Africa game is looking more and more of an unenviable task.
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Brown and Warne had an unenviable dilemma on their hands, even if they brought it on themselves.
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Much derided, but with an unenviable job.
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As the soldier's father, he had the unenviable task of identifying the body.
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She was given the unenviable task of informing the losers.
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Their security looks likely to be precarious, their task unenviable.
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Whoever wins will inherit an unenviable legacy.
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Sale have the unenviable record of having leaked more tries than any club in Premiership history.
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It is an unenviable job.
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But the choices available to Mr. Reagan strike U.S. policy - makers as equally unenviable.
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Glastonbury's unenviable task is to put on a festival that can please both extremes.
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On a day when British officials were congratulating themselves on the team's best showing in an Olympic Games for 76 years, a record of an unenviable nature was later set on the track.
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The judges' unenviable task in both cases was to choose between the judgement of the doctors and the wishes of the parents.
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The government has a large and unenviable task, but some pundits say it is rushing policy.
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Getting the selection right for the South Africa game is looking more and more of an unenviable task.
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Edward III was in a delicate and unenviable position .
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It is an unenviable task, yet it is a vital one if a modern healthcare system is to be delivered and patient expectations are to be met.
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Over the years the Humber Bridge has built up an unenviable reputation for attracting would-be suicides.
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Such expectation can create the unenviable task for the band to live up to positive critical reviews.
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So clearly some sort of context needs to be applied to that unenviable record of two wins from 22 matches.
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unenviable notoriety
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I am in the unenviable position of understanding both sides of the issue perfectly.
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The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
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The choice is unenviable but unavoidable.
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It is an unenviable task but he must stand strong for the longterm good of racing.
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Mandy has the unenviable task of making sure that everyone gets a fair share of the donations and no-one gets too much.
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It is an unenviable position to be in.
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To him fell the unenviable task of keeping the four independents happy.
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Their security looks likely to be precarious, their task unenviable.
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Whoever wins will inherit an unenviable legacy.
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The reconstruction of his country was certainly an unenviable task.
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The 1960s supercar, the Shelby AC Cobra, has the slightly unenviable reputation for being the most copied sports car in the history of motoring.
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It claims the unenviable record of having the highest number of takeaways as a percentage of population anywhere in Britain.
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She had the unenviable task of making the first few phone calls.
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This left Broad with the unenviable task of inserting another microchip under the skin at the rhino's other end.
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