See undesirable on Wiktionary
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"text": "The Camden Bench is not an anomaly: more and more, our cities are being designed to keep those deemed as ‘undesirables’ out. By its very nature this is ‘hostile architecture’—urban design with a focus on exclusion, design that inhibits community and tells us who is welcome and who is not.",
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"word": "mesel"
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"roman": "bù shòu huānyíng de",
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"word": "不受歡迎的 /不受欢迎的"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nežádoucí"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "uønskelig"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "uønsket"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "ongewenst"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "onwenselijk"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "epämieluinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "epämieluisa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "indésirable"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "indesexábel"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "arasasurveli",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "არასასურველი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "unerwünscht"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anepithýmitos",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ανεπιθύμητος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "nemkívánatos"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "indesiderabile"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nozomashiku nai",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "望ましくない"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nozomarenai",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "望まれない"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "uønska"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "uønsket"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "uønskt"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "uønskelig"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "uynskt"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "uønskt"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "niepożądany"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "indesejável"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nedorit"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neželátelʹnyj",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нежела́тельный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "indeseable"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "oönskad"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "icke-önskvärd"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "mâi peung pràsŏng",
"sense": "objectionable or not likely to please",
"word": "ไม่พึงประสงค์"
}
],
"word": "undesirable"
}
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"Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Thai translations"
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"args": {
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"2": "un-",
"3": "desirable",
"id1": "negative"
},
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"name": "af"
}
],
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{
"form": "undesirables",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "undesirable (plural undesirables)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"un‧de‧sir‧able"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1968, Gordon M. Williams, From Scenes Like These, William Morrow and Company, page 121:",
"text": "Barskiven Road was The Undesirables. Bad corporation tenants (didn't pay their rents, didn't dig their gardens, let their kids smash up windows) were transferred to The Undesirables until they showed they'd improved. His mother called them scum. Barskiven Road houses had all-metal fittings. Only the window panes could be broken, unless you had a blow-torch. McCann said they'd have them, soon. At the dancing blokes always made jokes if they knew a dame was from The Undesirables. It was supposed to be the worst street in the whole of Kilcaddie.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Lonely Planet, Best Place to be Today: 365 Things to do & the Perfect Day to do Them, →ISBN:",
"text": "The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century, →ISBN:",
"text": "The Camden Bench is not an anomaly: more and more, our cities are being designed to keep those deemed as ‘undesirables’ out. By its very nature this is ‘hostile architecture’—urban design with a focus on exclusion, design that inhibits community and tells us who is welcome and who is not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An undesirable person."
],
"links": [
[
"undesirable",
"#Adjective"
],
[
"person",
"person"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(often in the plural) An undesirable person."
],
"tags": [
"in-plural",
"often"
]
}
],
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},
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "mesel"
},
{
"word": "criminal"
},
{
"word": "jerk"
},
{
"word": "villain"
},
{
"word": "and troublemaker"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "an undesirable person",
"word": "nedezirato"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an undesirable person",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "ei-toivottu"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anepithýmitos",
"sense": "an undesirable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ανεπιθύμητος"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "an undesirable person",
"word": "pengacau"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an undesirable person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "indesejável"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an undesirable person",
"word": "indeseable"
}
],
"word": "undesirable"
}
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