unenviable

Adjective Satellite

• hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
  • "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
• so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy
  • "unenviable notoriety"

Adj

• Difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.

Examples

• Valjean was in the unenviable position of either living with the knowledge an innocent would suffer for his crime or revealing his true identity and going back to prison.

Synonyms

awkward, embarrassing, sticky

Antonyms

enviable