Formerly ladies wore black silks, or some dark or low-toned color in woollen or cotton or silk; and a woman who should have worn a white dress on top of a coach would, ten years ago, have been thought to make herself undesirably conspicuous.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
If the town street gets undesirably long, a second street or a third will be made, on one or both sides of the main street, and thus the town acquires breadth as well as length.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson
"I reckon, 'a hath begun with you too, Zeb," Mrs. Tugwell would answer, undesirably.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore