The domestic chaplain, of all men living, held the most unenviable position.
At a fort nine miles from Montreal a council was held in order to decide his fate; and he had the unenviable privilege of listening to a protracted discussion upon the expediency of burning him.
Another personage who, at the period of our stay in Shanghai, attained a rather unenviable notoriety by his strange conduct, and did but little to raise the reputation of France in these latitudes, was the Marquis de Chassiron.
Of course there was the inevitable informer, and in this case a certain knight, called Sir Thomas Palmer, has recorded against him this unenviable notoriety.
Gloucester doubtless thoroughly estimated the unenviablecharacter of his ally.
In this unenviable state Chang's mind continually returned to thoughts of Ling, whose lifeless body would so opportunely serve to dispel the embarrassing perplexities of existence which were settling thickly about him.
After many months spent in constant practice and in taking measurements, this unenviable person attained a very high degree of proficiency, and could draw any of the five characters without hesitation.
Yet it was not that she herself had no inward wish for that admiration which is desired by nearly every woman, or that she thought a married state was an unenviable one.
The road eastward from Erzingan is level, but heavy with dust, leading through a low portion of the valley that earlier in the season is swampy, and gives the city an unenviable reputation for malarial fevers.
Compelled to plunge into the impenetrable gloom, without light or means to defend myself, I was truly in unenviable predicament.
But less than a year later he appeared as defendant, and not as plaintiff, in the law courts, in the unenviable capacity of co-respondent in a discreditable divorce case.
He was one of the very few politicians who gained rather than lost credit while holding the unenviable post now assigned to him.
In this unenviable status was Matthew when Jesus called him.
As for men, I will harm one and profit another, sorely perplexing the tribes of unenviable men.
And in the doorless, windowless trap-room, where he had so unexpectedly become imprisoned, was Fritz, in the most unenviable situation one could well conceive.
There was a sorry prospect for his being able to do anything much toward helping himself from the unenviable situation in which he had been placed.
The position of the chief at this time was a mostunenviable one, for there is evidence that the Governor had begun to share the doubts of Major Last.
Mr. Percy Smith, writing in the Polynesian Journal, says: "His was a mostunenviable position.
I was indeed in an unenviable plight, by no means sure that I would not be slain out of hand when they became sufficiently sober to capture me.
I was in an unenviable state of mind when he left me.
His mother--unenviable name in this sad season of calamity!
Truth shall, at length, come from her concealment, and wither at a touch thy unmerited and unenviable distinctions!
Certainly the position of old maids is an unenviable one; every one is so ready to laugh at them, every one comments with such ungenerous amusement on their peculiarities and weaknesses.
My position was, as you perceive, not merely an unenviable one: it was positively idiotic.
Vi Hanbury, the beauty of a season, had been mixed up in someunenviable affair.
This was that Maurice was endowed with the unenviable gift of the evil eye.
Later it acquired an unenviable notoriety, as being the haunt of the 'Narentine Pirates,' who issued thence to make forays upon the coast, and plundered or levied tribute on the trading vessels of the Adriatic.
Having seen them under circumstances of no ordinary difficulty and privations, I found them ever cheerful and contented with their unenviable lot.
He had, of necessity, to make as little stir as possible in order to avoid anunenviable notoriety.
I would not exchange my present situation, unenviable as some may think it, for a throne.
He now daily proved that he was well entitled to this unenviable reputation.
A few weeks later Winslow became a chief instrument in the forcible removal of the French Acadians, which has given his name an unenviable notoriety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unenviable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
