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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

... of 1666, many new coffee houses were opened that were not limited to a single room up a flight of stairs. Because the coffee-house keepers over-emphasized the sobering qualities of the coffee drink, they drew many undesirable characters from the taverns and ale houses after the nine o'clock closing hour. These were hardly calculated to improve the reputation of the coffee houses; and, indeed, the decline of the coffee houses as a temperance institution would seem to trace ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... that I might have done all that, and become all that. I saw but myself, over and over again, with wondrous variations, none sufficient to destroy the identity. And I said to myself that, if I was so like them in all that was undesirable, it must be possible for them to become like me in all, whatever it was, that rendered me in ...

— Adela Cathcart - Volume II • George MacDonald

... young man, whose accent, clothes, and manner proclaimed him "from the East," whither, in all probability, he would shortly return if he did not mend his ways, disclaimed all knowledge of the place as if it were an undesirable acquaintance. But before he could deny it thrice, a man who had heard the cabalistic name was making his way towards the desk, the pride of the traveller radiating ...

— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning

... on which argument is alike useless and undesirable. We must observe and be guided by ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

... rivals in individual moral development, were wiped out by barbaric armies that gave unquestioning obedience to the tribal will and worked together like a machine. Up to a certain stage in human development individuality was an undesirable variation and was ruthlessly repressed, sometimes by the execution of the particular offenders, sometimes by the destruction of the group to which they belonged and which they by their divergence weakened. What forces made against custom-morality? Against these repressive forces, ...

— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

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