adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unenviable task (= unpleasant or difficult )
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He has the unenviable task of telling hungry people that there is no food.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
job
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Mr Sylvester went with her, glad to escape the inevitable recriminations, to leave Nutty to her unenviable job as captain.
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The unenviable job of heading such a body falls to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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With Walsh under suspension, the unenviable job of marking Bull has been handed to Simon Grayson.
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It's a cliché to say that the judge had a difficult task but indeed he did have an unenviable job .
position
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Sculptors of monuments which are commissioned to speak for others, then, are placed in an unenviable position .
task
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The Prague impresario Guardasoni was given the unenviable task of getting one together.
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And we have a new secretary, Kirsty Rawlings, who has the unenviable task of organising me!
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The doctor and Chief Superintendent Coffin stood aside as the photographer moved in to start his unenviable task of recording the remains.
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Richard of Gloucester has a difficult task - an unenviable task, some might say.
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This man has the unenviable task of telling hungry women and children queueing for food that they're waiting in vain.
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The residential staff are presented with an unenviable task .
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They already have the unenviable task of supervising some of the most dangerous prisoners in the country.
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Her successor faces an unenviable task .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lee had the unenviable task of reorganizing the department.
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The President is in an unenviable position.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A third of the way up a vicious-looking ice-climb were two men, slowly hacking an unenviable route with axes and crampons.
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And we have a new secretary, Kirsty Rawlings, who has the unenviable task of organising me!
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Brown and Warne had an unenviable dilemma on their hands, even if they brought it on themselves.
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But Washington emerged from most of those exchanges with an unenviable plight.
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Instead, he chose to stick with the old ways and practise an unenviable form of reverse racism.
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Policing this activity to ensure submission of the reports is an unenviable and thankless task.
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The plight of the injured was an unenviable one; several of them could not be moved.
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The Prague impresario Guardasoni was given the unenviable task of getting one together.