A bare enumeration of the difficulties which beset the new Prime Minister brings home a sense of his unenviable position.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
Jackson's administration derives a most unenviable notoriety as being the one under which the "spoils system" became, for the first time, grafted on the civil service of the nation; appointments and removals in the public service being made dependent upon political qualifications, and not, as hitherto, upon merit or capacity.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
He had to bear the unenviable distinction of a possible pretender to the principate.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill