Unwanted

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1697.  Congreve, Mourn. Bride, III. viii. [A] return so unwish’d, unwanted too, it seems.

1731.  A. Hill, Advice to Virgins, 10. Yet modest excellence will oft descend To thank unwanted caution in a friend.

1808.  Mitford, Hist. Greece, IV. 476. Yet exhortation … seems not to have been unwanted.

1864.  ‘Annie Thomas,’ D. Donne, I. vii. 167. Finding some one located at Donne Place who would prevent his occupying the distressing position of third and unwanted one.

1886.  Manning, in Contemp. Rev., May, 693. The duty society owes to the lives of unwanted children.