diff --git a/build-constraints.yaml b/build-constraints.yaml
index 74885423..0dca78c9 100644
--- a/build-constraints.yaml
+++ b/build-constraints.yaml
@@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ packages:
         - criterion
         - th-lift
         - singletons
-        - th-desugar
+
+        # https://github.com/fpco/stackage/issues/433
+        - th-desugar < 1.5
+
         - quickcheck-assertions
 
         - distributed-process-simplelocalnet