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  1. unwantedadjective

    not wanted; not needed

    "tried to give away unwanted kittens"

    Synonyms:
    undesirable

    Antonyms:
    wished-for, sought-after(a), yearned-for, hot, desired, longed-for, craved, wanted, sought

  2. undesirable, unwantedadjective

    not wanted

    "undesirable impurities in steel"; "legislation excluding undesirable aliens";"removed the unwanted vegetation"

    Synonyms:
    undesirable, unsuitable

    Antonyms:
    sought, craved, hot, wished-for, sought-after(a), desired, wanted, longed-for, yearned-for

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  1. Demetre Daskalakis:

    I'm feeling like I live somewhere in the '60s, talking about contraception and sometimes I can imagine deleting the word 'HIV' and saying 'unwanted pregnancy,' i think there is a lot of what's called 'slut shaming' in the Truvada story, but it's the exact analogy of what happened in the '60s with birth control. I mean, we've been living 30 years with the dogma that says the only way to be safe -- to prevent HIV infection -- is using condoms or abstinence.

  2. Anne Martin:

    In Northern California alone, thousands of stray and unwanted rabbits end up in the municipal shelter systems, and the majority of these rabbits are under a year old.

  3. Attorney General Todd Rokita:

    Honestly, Hoosiers are sick and tired of these harassing and illegal unwanted robocalls. Everyone is.

  4. Thomas Sowell:

    To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process

  5. Mother Teresa:

    Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.


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