Used in a Sentence

undesirable

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for undesirable.

Editorial note

The question is what is the marginal value in each extra year of life, not is the death itself undesirable.

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Quick take

Not desirable, objectionable or not likely to please.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of undesirable gathered in one view.

adjective

Not desirable, objectionable or not likely to please.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for undesirable.

Example sentences

1

The question is what is the marginal value in each extra year of life, not is the death itself undesirable.

2

Letting the guilty free is an undesirable outcome (assuming a just law), and jailing the innocent is a terrible outcome.

3

And depending on the organizational culture, this can either be a wonderful thing, or the most undesirable thing imaginable.

4

The gig economy is the starting of stratifying out undesirable people to a less-than-minimum-wage employee.

5

They don't realize the value will go down if the property becomes undesirable as well.

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When I was growing up this wasn't the case and they were the hangout of some, ahem, undesirable folk.

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I think it is actually quite undesirable for benchmark performance to be trivially computed from one parameter in machine provisioning.

8

You don't get an insurance discount for naively believing that you won't make mistakes, or for believing that undesirable things won't happen to you.

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Sure you save a lot of money when you don't have to pay a driver, but is it really enough to make car ownership undesirable?

10

This promotes undesirable behaviour, while positive activities are discouraged.

11

VP9 is great, but until there's hardware acceleration available for it, it's a bad idea to use the codec on devices where high CPU usage is undesirable.

12

I think economic isolation will be an effective deterrent to undesirable behavior.

Quote examples

1

Firefox doesn't even predefine some of the things in "about:config" that need to be set to turn off some of these undesirable features.

2

Nowadays, we consider that "the projects", undesirable housing for poor people, while the "middle class" live in considerably larger dwellings with more amenities.

3

You saying "it's just a word" ignores the fact that the word has been used as a package of behaviours to label these people as sub-human, and undesirable, and other, and then not treat them like humans.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use undesirable in a sentence?

The question is what is the marginal value in each extra year of life, not is the death itself undesirable.

What does undesirable mean?

Not desirable, objectionable or not likely to please.

What part of speech is undesirable?

undesirable is commonly used as adjective.