adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unwelcome guest (= someone who is not really a guest, and whom you do not want at an event )
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Security guards were employed to keep out unwelcome guests.
unwelcome publicity
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Their relationship had attracted unwelcome publicity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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I have caught up cats and hedgehogs - with the latter by far the most unwelcome .
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But in February of this year a most unwelcome event claimed his attention.
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The transaction included a most unwelcome preliminary.
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Here prescription from the centre is most unwelcome .
■ NOUN
attention
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To avoid attracting unwelcome attention Jim kept his speed down to 75 m.p.h., less than half the Jaguar's maximum.
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The child upon whom a family friend presses unwelcome attention .
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Many famous writers and historical characters, from Julius Caesar to Bernard Shaw, have received this sort of unwelcome attention .
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When the case gets to court, it may turn out that Mrs Dennis was not alone in receiving unwelcome attention .
news
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The lads were as cheerful as ever but guarded, like the possessors of unwelcome news .
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The anticipated loss of two events is not the end of unwelcome news .
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I get the impression he has had some rather unwelcome news .
publicity
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Cancellations cost the dealers in fines, and can generate unwelcome publicity for the licensed dealer concerned.
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The authority has no duty to implement any proposals for redress but clearly refusal to do so may lead to unwelcome publicity .
visitor
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Paul has some unwelcome visitors who want him to pay his debts.
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He arrived at Vera Cruz on November 30, but found himself a decidedly unwelcome visitor .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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unwelcome advice
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Environmentalists had been drawing unwelcome attention to the discharge of radioactive waste from nuclear power-stations.
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Many people saw the immigrants as unwelcome intruders in their town.
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Philippides returned with the unwelcome news that the army would not be ready to march for several days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Conran admits that he derives little satisfaction from having to fight off unwelcome suitors.
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From time to time it is inevitable there will be some unwelcome arrivals in the net.
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He arrived at Vera Cruz on November 30, but found himself a decidedly unwelcome visitor.
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In November, one unwelcome factor featured in the campaign.
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She was experiencing no unwelcome change of consciousness, no lightness in the head.
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Though unwelcome , this decline was predicted and planned for - and spending was therefore rightly under tight constraint in 1992.