Definitions

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  • adjective Impossible to buy; that one cannot buy.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ buyable.

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Examples

  • Just talked to L and I'm afraid I've got bad newshe says he still loves the book, but that he considers it "deeply unbuyable" right now, because of the threat against the airplane.

    I am 44% geek shunn 2001

  • Just talked to L and I'm afraid I've got bad newshe says he still loves the book, but that he considers it "deeply unbuyable" right now, because of the threat against the airplane.

    I am 44% geek shunn 2001

  • Although pretty centers can be purchased all the way up from $1, here again the mistress's industrious fingers come into play, for there is a certain unbuyable satisfaction in working a little of one's very self into the table adornment, and really handsome centerpieces are quite expensive.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

  • I caught a glimpse of that newer America growing up about us -- an America gone back to the older, truer, unbuyable ideals of our fathers.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • -- She hasn't, "said he, in a teasing tone," anything to give, except unbuyable truth.

    A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • He was, if any politician ever was, unbuyable; and though he was a sound Party man, on whom at a pinch his leaders could rely, he yet seemed to rise superior to the lower air of partisanship, and to lift debate into the atmosphere of conviction.

    Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • We can easily see that it is wiser to buy modern iridescent glass, fitted to our use, and yet carrying all the fascinating lustre of ancient glass, than to sigh for the possession of some unbuyable thing belonging to dead and gone Caesars.

    Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples Candace Wheeler 1875

  • I don't care how small or uncomfortable they are, the back seats make this car buyable where the Smart is unbuyable.

    Autoblog Jonny Lieberman 2010

  • The rest-the touchscreen consumer hardware, the phones you'll be able to pick up at your local Best Buy-have just been so brutally and thoroughly maimed, and rendered so spectacularly unbuyable, that Microsoft has effectively taken themselves out of the phone market until October-at the earliest.

    Gizmodo John Herrman 2010

  • The months after the iMac announcement and actual iMac introduction featured heated discussion about the yet unbuyable machine.

    Apple Matters 2010

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