Sentence examples for Undesirable from inspiring English sources

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Undesirable

adjective

Objectionable or not likely to please

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Pre-registering scientific articles in this way helps to protect against a number of undesirable practices (such as p-hacking and HARKing) that can exaggerate statistical findings and make non-existent effects seem real.

The well-off are not only protecting their areas from new homes, they are also pushing undesirable developments into poorer neighbourhoods.

If Erdoğan or his aides do not call the top managers and editors of the media to publish propaganda or censor undesirable content, the owners themselves do it.

When you're 15, Cinderella stories, too, seem hopelessly dated; and to be confronted with Elizabeth, a pantomime Ugly Sister, on the shelf and in drag, waiting for the "baronet-blood", which never came, and Mary, a constant complainer stuck in the shires with a huntin', fishin', shootin' husband, was as undesirable as having to get to know the Cinders who did all the dull jobs and was "only Anne".

"It was the issue of maintaining relationships with desirable or undesirable characters".

The price of success is to become undesirable, for actors as for the queen herself.

He added: "That is entirely understandable; it is undesirable and it is unsustainable".

Tootsie-chic The undesirable look achieved by pairing a posh frock with glasses, according to Tina Fey.

The fact that Americans are outraged by oppressive governments, but lack a realistic theory of how stable governments come into being, means that it is easy to generate political support for attacking undesirable states and organisations, but hard to generate support for building anything to replace them.

In such places its strategy was "could, should, must" (explain why independence is possible, why it is desirable and why the alternative is undesirable).

Early retirement and careful political vetting thins the upper ranks, presumably eliminating those with undesirable views.

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