Adjective : an unwished-for occurrence. From Dictionary.com.
Laughter came unwished-for, carrying with it the taste of gall. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
To feel her so close to him, although only through unwished-for accident, is dangerously sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
It would be the last before the arrival of the unwished-for visitors, and they wanted to make the most of it. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
They fed him on biscuits and incomprehensible words; they gave him water to drink mixed with unwished-for rum. From Wordnik.com. [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference
Almost simultaneously, via France24 News, we "discover" elder French financial journalist Jean-Michel Quatrepoint, who rather brilliantly describes a possible and unwished-for scenario of the current global financial mess. From Wordnik.com. [Euro view of U.S./global crisis from Jean-Michel Quatrepoint] Reference
You may easily believe, the last of my intentions was any further essay in a lottery I had found so inauspicious; but, while cold even to apathy, it was my inevitable chance to fall in the way of a pleasing and innocent young creature, who gave me, unsought and unwished-for, her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
A Pelican At Blandings, however, follows the typical Wodehouse path of going to absurd lengths to stay the same typically by either staying engaged or returning to the blissful state of not being engaged after having been embroiled in a plot which involved an involuntary or unwished-for engagement. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Paul A Go Go] Reference
A long time she pondered, and the impulse to write to him came over her, but that impulse was followed by retrospection, and as one thing after another arose out of the past in solemn procession, closing with the unloved and unwished-for child which she had lost five years ago, she knew that she would not open a correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Then her sense of what was "fair" made her force her eyes toward her unwished-for companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Brass Bound Box] Reference
Why did he seek to gain my affection by a declaration of his love, so unexpected, so almost unwished-for?. From Wordnik.com. [Honoria Sommerville] Reference
Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
In the beginning stages one of them and then you should prepare get rid of unwished-for curly hair unique total body. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
It is owing to this kindness of our numerous friends, in all quarters, that my new and unwished-for situation is not indeed a burden to me. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched] Reference
Trying to doze again, she lay with closed eyes; and a procession of strange, unwished-for thoughts busily pushed sleep away from her brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Guests Of Hercules] Reference
He had that most depressing of unwished-for possessions, a skeleton; its cupboard-door swung creakingly in the wind, and its bones rattled in his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Wooden Horse] Reference
So vivid was this feeling of unwished-for companionship that he got up and looked in the shadowed recess of the alcove in which stood his bed; but, of course, there was no one there. From Wordnik.com. [The Chink in the Armour] Reference
So far from feeling flattered by the unwished-for recollection of Elsie's feeling for him, he was rather disposed to view it as a pathological phenomenon, -- as a sort of malady, of which he would like to cure her. From Wordnik.com. [Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories] Reference
Almost simultaneously, via France24 News, we "discover" elder French financial journalist Jean-Michel Quatrepoint, who rather brilliantly describes a possible (and unwished-for) scenario of the current global financial mess. From Wordnik.com. [Marian's Blog] Reference
Boston, though its substantial erections of brick and stone present great obstacles to the progress of the devouring element, frequently displays these unwished-for illuminations, and has some very well organized fire companies. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
He was in every way fitted to adorn his high office; but he was too good a man for that age and that country, and the unwished-for elevation which he won by the eloquence of his friend only plunged him within a few years into an abyss of misery and ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference
This letter was left to Mrs. Beaumont to dispatch to me: wheni’c its unwished-for delay: lor she deained it, to send with it an equally obliging one of. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Irish, who had never known any other mode of living, had no floors in their cabins, and were getting up all sorts of Howard benevolent societies to supply unfortunate Pat with what is to him an unwished-for luxury. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
A young and exceedingly beautiful peasant girl came in, whom I should undoubtedly have declared a lady who had fled from cruel parents and an unwished-for marriage, had not her red hands and unadulterated peasant dialect convinced me that no disguise had taken place. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
The greatest annoyance at present in this western country is the quantity and variety of snakes; it is hardly safe to land upon some parts of the Wisconsin river banks, and they certainly offer a great impediment to the excursions of geologist and botanist; you are obliged to look right and left as you walk, and as for putting your hand into a hole, you would be almost certain to receive a very unwished-for and unpleasant shake to welcome you. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series One] Reference
"Unsought and unwished-for, too, according to Miss Lothrop's theory. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody] Reference
Strike your mandolin again louder, beloved of my soul -- still louder, that I may be further relieved of this unwished-for crowd. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference
But now an all unwished-for gift I rue. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Illusions] Reference
Of hap unwished-for, even Orestes 'death. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Atreus] Reference
An unwished-for Introduction ¾ Definition of. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
"Rather, sir, an unwished-for intrusion," answered the other. From Wordnik.com. [Audrey] Reference
Datis, but the third, Pharnuches, who was in command of the horse with them, had been left behind at Sardis sick: for as they were setting forth from Sardis, an accident befell him of an unwished-for kind, — as he was riding, a dog ran up under his horse’s feet, and the horse not having seen it beforehand was frightened, and rearing up he threw Pharnuches off his back, who falling vomited blood, and his sickness turned to a consumption. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Herodotus] Reference
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