adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unwanted baby
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Unwanted babies were frequently abandoned in the streets.
an unwanted gift
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You can take any unwanted gifts to charity shops.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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There is even a bird-enticing mere built especially for them, with islands, and high banks to keep out unwanted humans.
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What a gyro does do, however, is to damp out unwanted movements and allow the pilot more time to react.
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I blot out unwanted runs, bleeds and blocks with highly textured kitchen roll.
■ NOUN
attention
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Both are reluctant to talk about their plans, for fear of attracting unwanted attention from the insurance industry.
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Feigning indifference, she scuttled away from all the unwanted attention .
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By making themselves obvious to predators they can easily attract unwanted attention .
child
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He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children .
guest
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But then, she was at home here, not Rachaela's unwanted guest .
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Any unwanted guest soon found himself bundled down to one of the lower floors.
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Try to stand up and demand that fear leaves your inner being, like an unwanted guest .
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My unwanted guest and I spent five long days and evenings together, with the wind and rain beating on the windows.
pregnancy
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They could also lead to unwanted pregnancies and venereal disease, both on the increase among young people.
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The way to reduce abortion is to prevent unwanted pregnancy .
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The stereotype is of stories exclusively concerned with drugs and unwanted pregnancies .
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The reason: fewer unwanted pregnancies and thus fewer incomplete abortions.
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But remember, there's simply no excuse in this society, in the late twentieth century, for an unwanted pregnancy .
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Each year, 200, 000 teens age 17 and younger have children, many from unwanted pregnancies .
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As unwanted pregnancies can so easily be avoided by abortion and contraception, why is illegitimacy now so high?
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Their general health is better and they do not suffer repeated or unwanted pregnancies as a matter of course.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jones claimed that the President made unwanted sexual advances towards her, in a Little Rock hotel room.
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The pill was once expected to limit the number of unwanted pregnancies, but instead the number has soared.
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There are several ways that you can remove unwanted hair, including waxing or electrolysis at a salon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But then, she was at home here, not Rachaela's unwanted guest.
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Eventually, after three weeks, he stepped in to rescue her from another, unwanted admirer and love blossomed.
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Paying a mortgage trader much more than a treasury trader made the treasury trader feel unwanted .
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Unplanned, unwanted infants may begin to seem more acceptable at this point.
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Whilst some welcome the opportunity of early retirement, others see it as an unwanted imposition on their lives.