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unenviable Adjective (of a task) so difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant that one is glad not to have to do it oneself: the unenviable task of phoning the parents of the dead child
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Did he gloat over the unenviable position of his recent tormentor? After breakfast I had another unenviable experience. And on them was laid an unenviable struggle: for she, even fair, swift-footed Atalanta, ran scorning the gifts of golden Aphrodite; but with him the race was for his life, either to find his doom, or to escape it. |
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