unenviable task

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meaningsofunenviableandtask

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unenviable
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈen.vi.ə.bəl/us
/ʌnˈen.vi.ə.bəl/
An unenviable duty or necessary action is unpleasant ...
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task
noun
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofunenviableandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Due to the absence of suitable baseline information, many practitioners currently have theunenviabletaskof making post hoc assessments of the impact a contaminated site might be having.
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She now has theunenviabletaskof choosing between two competing necessities.
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Being a prison officer is a difficult andunenviabletask.
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There is no competitor for thisunenviabletask.
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It is hisunenviabletaskto try to guide that company aright.
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What anunenviabletask, and he was doing it for nothing.
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I thought that he had been given anunenviabletask.
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It was indeed anunenviabletaskthat he was given.
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That would be a mammoth andunenviabletask.
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He faces anunenviabletask, hampered again by time—the project's enemy—and by money.
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It is anunenviabletaskthat he has undertaken.
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That is anunenviabletaskwhich they have to perform on our behalf.
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At the same time, he has a miserable andunenviabletaskahead of him.
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I can think of no moreunenviabletask, and my gratitude to her is sincere and my admiration unbounded.
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We wish him well in what still appears to me to be a somewhat complicated andunenviabletask.
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For the soldier, duties in aid of the civil power constitute the mostunenviabletaskthat he can ever be called upon to perform.
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It discharged anunenviabletaskwith courage, fairness and integrity and it would be quite wrong of me to let any of these rumours pass without challenge.
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He has the veryunenviabletaskof stripping out of the civilian economy all the labour, all the material and all the premises he possibly can.
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The sense of loss is exactly the same for the widow, and she has theunenviabletaskof trying to start a new life for herself and possibly her family.
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