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Undesirable

adjective

Not wanted. Synonym: unwanted. "Legislation excluding undesirable aliens" , "Removed the unwanted vegetation" Antonym: desirable.

Not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse). Synonym: unsuitable.

noun

One whose presence is undesirable.

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"Undesirable" Quotes from Famous Books

... but when all is said and done, the fact that a war should put many half-bankrupt concerns on their legs, and make fairly prosperous companies three or four times more prosperous than before the war, is an influence in an undesirable direction. ...

— The World in Chains - Some Aspects of War and Trade • John Mavrogordato

... to be of any practical interest, since it is now generally admitted that electorates should not return more than ten or twenty members. Moreover, it is admitted that the electors would group themselves in very undesirable ways, and not as Mr. Hare expected. And yet the only effect of limiting the size of the electorates is to reduce the number of undesirable ways in which electors might group themselves. Let us briefly note the different ...

— Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government • T. R. Ashworth and H. P. C. Ashworth

... ludicrous to regard Helen as the social inferior of any person then resident in the Kursaal, and it is probable that a glimmering knowledge of this fact inflamed Mrs. de Courcy Vavasour's wrath to boiling point, when a few minutes later, she saw her son coolly walk up to the "undesirable" and ...

— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... have undesirable habits of utterance or gesture. Some are continually applying the hand to some part of the face, the chin, the whiskers; some give the nose a peck with thumb and forefinger; others ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... us up as undesirable vagrants," laughed Vane. "It's a county town and they're rather particular. I'm not certain that happiness isn't an offence under the Defence of the Realm Act. Incidentally, I don't think there would be many convictions these ...

— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

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