unwished-for
Example Sentences
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Her agony in confronting her unwished-for destiny of eternal undeadness is brilliant.
From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2018
Let's see: a cold land, frosty mytho-creatures, icy art direction, a woozily pompous atmosphere — could this be an unwished-for sequel to The Last Airbender?
From Time • May 4, 2011
We have become, in a painful, unwished-for way, nature itself.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Hither and not unsummoned have I come; For a new rumour, borne by stranger men Arriving hither, hath attained mine ears, Of hap unwished-for, even Orestes' death.
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
It would be the last before the arrival of the unwished-for visitors, and they wanted to make the most of it.
From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Clarke, Margaret Bruce