unenviable task

Frequency: 7.29.1 per million words

refers to a difficult or unpleasant duty or piece of work

unenviableADJECTIVE + NOUN

Categories:

task

Examples (10)

  • The committee had the unenviable task of deciding which employees would be laid off.
  • Cleaning up after the festival was an unenviable task, but the volunteers persevered.
  • Investigating the intricate details of the complex fraud scheme fell to Agent Sterling, an unenviable task indeed.
  • The principal's unenviable task was to address the parents' concerns about the new school policy.
  • Being the whistleblower exposed him to an unenviable task of public scrutiny and potential retaliation.
  • The diplomat's unenviable task was to mediate between two warring nations.
  • Sorting through the destroyed archives was an unenviable task for the historians.
  • The emergency services faced the unenviable task of rescuing survivors from the rubble.
  • He was assigned the unenviable task of organizing his ex-wife's move.
  • The judge's unenviable task was to deliver a guilty verdict in a case with overwhelming public sympathy for the defendant.