Unenviable in a sentence as an adjective

That they've got the unenviable choice of losing their work, or losing somebody else's... or losing both.

No, just more evidence female's life is unenviable in Albania

" From CEOs to middle managers, people pretend their jobs are unenviable, because it makes the organization more stable that way.

I would agree with this, although I'm in the unenviable position of needing a lot of dental work after not having had any for awhile.

The founders of Diaspora were in a really unenviable position.

Maybe you find yourself in the unenviable position of needing to both develop and manage a business and be a whistle-blower at the same time.

I've also been in the equally unenviable position of having to pay for someone who completed work according to a scope that was too vaguely defined.

They are in the unenviable position of living at low cost in low density housing in a locality that is shooting up in value, and all they can do is attempt to forestall the inevitable.

What you quoted back to me is the possibly flawed recollection of a reporter who's in the unenviable position of defending a very high-profile cover story used to relaunch a national magazine.

What I see when I look out the window is a person who has the determination and energy to push a heavy cart up a hill on a cold night, and yet a person who has -- despite those traits, which society values -- found themselves in an unenviable life position right now.

It's more that I'm lamenting that as a mobile app developer for commercial clients I am forced to use the platforms which have traction, which leaves me with the unenviable choice of iOS or Android, both of which have significant warts, and neither of which leave much choice for experimentation in languages for writing apps or UIs.

Unenviable definitions

adjective

hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"

See also: awkward embarrassing sticky

adjective

so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy; "unenviable notoriety"