undesirable

Definition

Not desirable, objectionable or not likely to please.

Etymology

From un- + desirable.

Example Sentences

• "There would be no need for any of the animals to come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable."
• "Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication."
• "[David] Brog spoke movingly of his immigrant grandfather as a triumph of the assimilationist model—a Romanian Jew who emigrated to America, learned English, and became a good patriotic American—but failed to mention that the 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country."