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undeˈsirable, a. and n.
[un-1 7 b.]
a. adj. Not to be desired; objectionable.
1667Milton P.L. ix. 824 So to..render me more equal, and perhaps, A thing not undesireable, sometime Superior. a1768Secker Serm. (1770) I. v. 113 It will provoke the better Part of their Inferiors to think ill of them, which is a very undesirable Thing. 1813Lamb in Gentl. Mag. June 618/1 A little excess in that article is not undesirable in youth. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 142 A porter's lodge, where undesirable visitors could be stopped.
b. n. An undesirable thing or person.
1883Athenæum 20 Jan. 81/3 Why not, then, connect..‘glanders’ and ‘gluttony’ as undesirables, at once? 1900Daily News 12 Nov. 7/5 Having among her passengers 42 ‘undesirables’, deported from Capetown.
Hence undeˈsirableness.
1675Owen Indwelling Sin xi. (1732) 137 It casts Death and undesirableness upon them all. c1815Jane Austen Persuasion ii, The undesirableness of any other house..for Sir Walter. 1886Athenæum 20 Feb. 267/2 The doctrine of the utter unreality and undesirableness of all life.
▸ undesirable discharge U.S. Mil., discharge from military service without a court martial, but under conditions that are less than honourable; a certificate attesting to such a discharge.
1911U.S. Navy Court Martial Orders 1 Mar. No. 7. 16 From the evidence in the case it is apparent that the accused assumed a false name and concealed the fact of a prior undesirable discharge from the service. 1946Sat. Evening Post 12 Jan. 97/1 The Navy has three kinds of ‘yellow discharges’, along with the straight dishonorable ticket, there is also a bad-conduct discharge and an undesirable discharge. 1970N.Y. Times 14 June 28/1 He was discussing a decision to retain drug addicted soldiers on the post and seek their rehabilitation here rather than have them ousted from the service with an undesirable discharge. 2001Los Angeles Times 16 Sept. a24 The Army eventually gave him an undesirable discharge for unruly behavior. |