Everyone finds necessary household maintenance and repairs an unwelcome financial burden, but for the poorer such expenses may be quite nightmarish.

Even Anna still found him an unwelcome burden in her classroom despite the fact that he was finally functioning on a fairly acceptable level academically.

They have been the touchstones of modernity, their presence an unwelcome burden at first, and later, in the name of postmodernism, welcome company.

I feel that the adults tolerate us as an additional and unwelcome burden that they can do nothing about.

Charlie is overwhelmed with a sense of doom, and he sees his Inuit companion as an unwelcome burden.

On the other hand, the colonists felt the heavy military presence as an unwelcome burden in other ways besides taxation.

But the foundation is scheduled to discontinue its subsidies next April, and some Internet2 members are beginning to view the cost as an unwelcome burden.

The old man shook himself again as if ridding himself of an unwelcome burden and continued his labor.

Those of others were an unwelcome burden.

Such a vote of confidence implied accepted responsibility, and he acknowledged to himself that he wanted to and would dodge the unwelcome burden.