unenviable task/job etc (of doing something)• And we have a new secretary, Kirsty Rawlings, who has the unenviable task of organising me!• Mr Sylvester went with her, glad to escape the inevitablerecriminations, to leave Nutty to her unenviable job as captain.• Richard of Gloucester has a difficult task - an unenviable task, some might say.• The doctor and ChiefSuperintendentCoffin stood aside as the photographer moved in to start his unenviable task of recording the remains.• The Prague impresario Guardasoni was given the unenviable task of getting one together.• The residentialstaff are presented with an unenviable task.• They already have the unenviable task of supervising some of the most dangerousprisoners in the country.• This man has the unenviable task of telling hungry women and children queueing for food that they're waiting in vain.