0 An unenviable duty or necessary action is unpleasant or difficult: --
Many women—and sometimes men—are left in an unenviable position because the opposite partner in the marriage has left, has disappeared and cannot be found again.
It places the employee in an unenviable position.
Those who had no such canteen found themselves in a rather unenviable position by comparison with those who did.
That is the unenviable position which forms the background to any debate on housing today.
We have had that unenviable record since the end of the war.
It is my unenviable privilege to share your concern.
They are sure of a lasting and unenviable notoriety in the history of the drink trade.
To expend such a level of public money without one positive result is an unenviable record.
