Unenviable means so difficult or unpleasant that nobody would want it. An unenviable task.
It is a sympathetic word and is nearly always used of a job somebody else has. An unenviable record is one nobody would want to hold.
1adjectiveunenviableSo difficult or unpleasant that nobody would want it.
“She had the unenviable job of telling the whole department.”
unenviable is a quality.
From un- + enviable.
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