unenviable notoriety. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And because of that, there are what we call unenviable choices. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
"They're now faced with the kind of unenviable task of trying to make it work.". From Wordnik.com. [EPA left to pick up climate change where Congress dropped the debate] Reference
Corzine warns Christie on 'unenviable' budget choices. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
For these atrocities they gained unenviable notoriety. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Janet Reno has the unenviable task of sorting out the truth. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Conspiracy' At Work?] Reference
The public rebuked the unenviable notoriety of "Coal Oil Johnny.". From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
"And I feel for Blair, too, who is in the most unenviable predicament.". From Wordnik.com. [No Place Is Safe] Reference
Not for this, however, would I let him remain in his unenviable position. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Saxony has the unenviable distinction of being the country the worst fed in. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Fractures of the bones of the leg possessed an unenviable degree of importance. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Madge, who had already made an unenviable record for herself on both sides of the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
It was an unenviable duty, and it could be performed with neither precision nor justice. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
As it was, these small places were from the first placed in the most unenviable quandary. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
It is to be regretted that Connecticut earned such an unenviable place in history as this. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
The events of this day have given to every trait of these men a lasting and unenviable interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Geithner's been chosen to bear the Administration's economic message, which is an unenviable task. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Geithner and The White House Are Making the Wrong Case] Reference
When they finally get sick they are in the unenviable position of having no other family with them. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: True Grit Part I: Growing Old in America] Reference
VARNEY: Lou Miller is a retired security guard who has the unenviable job of selling a tax hike here. From Wordnik.com. [In Rural Calif., A Debate On How To Save A Hospital] Reference
During the whole period that I commanded in Louisiana and Texas my position was a most unenviable one. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Situated between New York and Philadelphia, the NJSO has always been faced with unenviable competition. From Wordnik.com. [A New Sound in New Jersey] Reference
Jean's disregard for her wishes had already placed the freshman in an unenviable prominence in college. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
And Ken Taylor, the state's Deputy Commissioner of Fish and Game, has the unenviable task of explaining why. From Wordnik.com. [Alaska: Polar Bear Isn't Endangered] Reference
They had attained the most unenviable notoriety in 1845, when at the Bal Mabille a dance was introduced called. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
She has come down to us with a most unenviable record as a scold who made life almost unendurable for her husband. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
It has been Chenault's unenviable task to put the best face on what has clearly been an awful year for his company. From Wordnik.com. [The Race To The Top] Reference
They have an unenviable time of it, -- feasting in the summer and fall, hibernating in winter, and starving in spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Air Force Special Forces, air-combat specialists, have the unenviable job of getting troops on and off the battlefield. From Wordnik.com. [The War Of The Night] Reference
As for the disputant who had stirred up the monster, his situation was as unenviable as it was comic to the bystanders. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
He contrasts his unenviable position with the freedom and good-fellowship of the club, and chafes under the family bonds. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
And Hong Kong trading companies now have the unenviable task of persuading Western clients not to cut them out of the loop. From Wordnik.com. [From Rags To Riches] Reference
"British beasts" that have disgraced the pages of history, and earned for him the unenviable title of "The Butcher of Culloden.". From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Hancock is a good man tasked with the unenviable task of defending a system that has lower public approval ratings than Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Frederick: The Myth of College Football's "Most Compelling Regular Season"] Reference
The GOP winner will have the unenviable task in strongly Democratic Montgomery of taking on incumbent Isiah Leggett come November. From Wordnik.com. [At-large council race in Montgomery is a nail-biter; Berliner, Rice win] Reference
Of the infants baptized in it, one at least obtained a rather unenviable celebrity -- Dr John Wolcot, better known as 'Peter Pindar.'. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
It may be that Democrats are in the unenviable position of waiting for bad economic times or a botched war to restore their political fortunes. From Wordnik.com. [Dems In The Dumps] Reference
While large sums are spent on preserving the panda and other animal species, thousands of Chinese miners meet their deaths at work each year, after short and unenviable lives. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Debating Hillary] Reference
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