unwished

[ uhn-wisht ]

adjective

1. unwished-for.

unwished

/ ʌnˈwɪʃt /

adjective

1. not desired; unwelcome

Word History and Origins

Origin of unwished¹

First recorded in 1575–85; un- ¹ + wish + -ed ²

Example Sentences

If the foetus dies as an unwished for, though permitted, consequence of this haemostasis, the surgeon may lament this result, but he is blameless.

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The imagination is rebelliously evil, often uncontrollable; and the thought rose up unbidden and unwished for.

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The opportunity for which the most illustrious and the most famous of Americans have longed and labored and pined offered itself to him, unsought, unwished, and he smiled it away.

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Wearisome night! full of spectral forms which glide in and out through the darkness, bringing from the past unwished for memories which tell us ever of what we are and what we might have been.

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As woman is not considered in the Chinese worship of ancestors, her birth is as unwished for as that of the Indian woman.

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