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unenviable

/ən'ɛnviəbəl/

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adjective
hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
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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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awkward embarrassing sticky difficult hard
adjective
so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy
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"unenviable notoriety"

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undesirable unwanted

Examples of unenviable

"in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
"unenviable notoriety"