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undesirables

undesirables is the plural of undesirable.

Meaning of undesirable

Noun

undesirable (plural undesirables)

  1. (in plural, often) An undesirable person.
    • 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...1968, Gordon M. Williams, From Scenes Like These, William Morrow and Company, page 121
    Synonyms:
    mesel, jerk, villain, and troublemaker

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Questions about undesirables

What is undesirables the plural of?
Undesirables is the plural of undesirable.

Words near undesirables in the dictionary

  1. undesirabilities
  2. undesirability
  3. undesirable
  4. undesirableness
  5. undesirablenesses
  6. undesirables
  7. undesirably
  8. undesire
  9. undesireable
  10. undesired
  11. undesiredly

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