Definitions
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- adjective of a painting unable to be
hung (orsold ), especially because of its sexual content - adjective of a book unable to be
published , for the same reason
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some of it falls into the category made famous by Gertrude Stein when she used the word inaccrochable.
Winging It Bruce Schauble 2007
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Some of it falls into the category made famous by Gertrude Stein when she used the word inaccrochable.
Archive 2007-04-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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I could have expressed myself more vividly by using an inaccrochable phrase that wolves used on the lake boats, “Oh gash may be fine but one eye for mine.”
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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I could have expressed myself more vividly by using an inaccrochable phrase that wolves used on the lake boats, “Oh gash may be fine but one eye for mine.”
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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She told me that I was not a good enough writer to be published there or in The Saturday Evening Post but that I might be some new sort of writer in my own way but the first thing to remember was not to write stories that were inaccrochable.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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I had never had it copied because she said it was inaccrochable.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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I had never had it copied because she said it was inaccrochable.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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She told me that I was not a good enough writer to be published there or in The Saturday Evening Post but that I might be some new sort of writer in my own way but the first thing to remember was not to write stories that were inaccrochable.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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I knew many inaccrochable terms and phrases from Kansas City days and the mores of different parts of that city, Chicago and the lake boats.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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I knew many inaccrochable terms and phrases from Kansas City days and the mores of different parts of that city, Chicago and the lake boats.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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