Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not presentable; not fit for being presented or introduced to company or society; not in proper trim; unfit to be seen.
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- adjective Not
presentable .
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- adjective creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression
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Examples
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Norberto Itzcovich, the current technical director of the government statistical agency, recently lashed out at the consultants in the Argentine media, saying that many of their calculations "lack the minimum technical rigor" and are "unpresentable."
Economists Quake as Argentina Votes Matt Moffett 2011
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The only effect that all this knowledge of puns has had besides enabling me to dominate the Math Puns category during my sole appearance on Jeopardy! has been to make me socially unpresentable.
IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns? Alexandra Petri 2011
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With Iran's presidential selection of June 12 coming up, the all-powerful Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had his opportunity to replace the thoroughly unpresentable, loudly extremist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a more plausible negotiating partner for Mr. Obama.
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And it she says the McCain campaign forced her and her family to undergo that six-figure makeover, which she says made her wonder whether the family seemed unpresentable.
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Also, Palin did not like the forced makeover, and said she wondered at the time if she and her clan came across as "that" unpresentable.
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The words have poured out with a shameless profusion -- much of it unsuccessful or incomplete, or otherwise unpresentable.
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Stitching up the highly presentable Nikki Page and putting forward the highly unpresentable Steve Norris, who had lost once already, was an act of madness.
A New Mayor for London Peter Troy 2008
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Stitching up the highly presentable Nikki Page and putting forward the highly unpresentable Steve Norris, who had lost once already, was an act of madness.
Archive 2008-05-01 Peter Troy 2008
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She was considered too rough, too dirty, too unpresentable.
The Scat Lady 2008
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One of his grown daughters volunteered some information (unpresentable here) on how her father kept his harem conjugally satisfied.
LADIES' CHAMPION 2008
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