0 An unenviable duty or necessary action is unpleasant or difficult:
He recognizes that most decisions are reached in an economic environment that places government in an unenviable position.
Far from us to advise divorce, for in today's world it still incurs an unenviable stigma.
In contrast, abstract avant-garde artists found themselves in an unenviable position.
Due to the absence of suitable baseline information, many practitioners currently have the unenviable task of making post hoc assessments of the impact a contaminated site might be having.
There has previously been no formal identification of those essential skills, concepts and sensitivities; consequently the task of designing and maintaining vocationally relevant curricula has been unenviable.
Hudson was in an unenviable position.
She now has the unenviable task of choosing between two competing necessities.
To expend such a level of public money without one positive result is an unenviable record.
