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  • We're merely "Undesirables", artistic more or less;

    Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 1916

  • She had listened to the gateman's laconic explanation, "Undesirables," flung to a curious passer-by, and had glimpsed a vision of the prisoners cast upon some westward-sailing ship for return to the land that waited to crush them.

    Undesirables 1915

  • If You Like Putting Sterilants in Our Water and Forcing "Undesirables" to Get Abortions, Have We Got a Science Czar for You

    Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

  • If You Like Putting Sterilants in Our Water and Forcing "Undesirables" to Have Abortions, Have We Got a Science Czar for You

    186 k per second 2009

  • “ ‘Undesirables’ describes our entire clientele,” I reminded him.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity was the evil organization that all U.N.C.L.E. agents were sworn to stop.

    Taking It In Cheryl Diane Kidder 2011

  • Undesirables were moved from city centres to outlying the suburbs, which are now left to rot by the bourgeoisie who do not admit they are bourgeois, incidentally, because they have never forgotten their "cobble-loving soixante-huitard youth" because the French secretly long for their own Detroit, their own Los Angeles, their own South Bronx.

    TV review: Jonathan Meades on France; Bouncers 2012

  • The Evil Rich folks not wanting the Undesirables in their community?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf 2010

  • “ ‘Undesirables’ describes our entire clientele,” I reminded him.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • “ ‘Undesirables’ describes our entire clientele,” I reminded him.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

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