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‘A way can be undesirable.’

[⟨det way.n⟩ undesirable.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Certainly Romney would complicate things for McCain in an undesirable way and would not, of course, seriously put his home state into play.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Seeing that the Empire is not exactly on good terms with several factions of the world, are you not afraid this article might be used by your enemies to start a personal attack on yourself or in other undesirable way?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

How a Calorie Shifting Diet Works Part 2 Plus a few other responses that make the state of severe dieting an undesirable way to go through life, even for a short time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Plus a few other responses that make the state of severe dieting an undesirable way to go through life, even for a short time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

How a Calorie Shifting Diet Works Part 2 Plus a few other responses that make the state of severe dieting an undesirable way to go through life, even for a short time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

How a Calorie Shifting Diet Works Part 2 Plus a few other responses that make the state of severe dieting an undesirable way to go through life, even for a short time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m scared but, on balance, glad: I think the Paulson plan would have altered the relations between government and economy in a highly undesirable way; or perhaps it would only have continued a trend, but that’s even worse.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Reason for Rejection: Comedic effect would take over the show in an undesirable way.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Therefore I shall conclude that such theory does support ‘my’ phenomena in an undesirable way.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But only if you promise to stop finishing the dressing on your plate in a certain undesirable way when there is no bread!
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In Wikipedia:

With the advent of hand – held firearms, this became an undesirable way of firing a gun.
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In the British National Corpus:

An externalization – or, perhaps we should more strictly say, a de-internalization – or dependency on the breast produces some external dependency which, if it does not manifest itself with regard to food, is likely to do so in an even more undesirable way with regard to addictive drugs or alcohol.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And they also spend their payment in undesirable way such as buying too many clothings or idling away theirs in a game room.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And could not possibly work, because at stake were the energy and other resources of a huge country, as well as its nuclear capability, which, if the situation were to develop in an undesirable way, might proliferate around the globe and very probably end up in the wrong hands.
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In Wikipedia:

In cryptography, a weak key’ “is a key which when used with a specific cipher, makes the cipher behave in some undesirable way.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So much so, that I knew at an early age, I did NOT want to get married, because what I saw modeled of marriage from my parents was a VERY undesirable way to live.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If it fluctuates in an undesirable way, we cant do a thing about it!
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In Wikipedia:

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the IFAB experimented with ways of creating a winner without requiring a penalty shootout, which was often seen as an undesirable way to end a match.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If however I lose my virginity in any undesirable way, the deal will be off.
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Queried on 2013-05-19.