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  • adjective Unfit for publication.

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  • adjective Not suitable for publication

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  • adjective not suitable for publication

Etymologies

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un- +‎ publishable

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Examples

  • My objection to Catherine Wald and those who think like her is that they raise totally unrealistic hopes in what I call the unpublishable classes.

    Catherine Wald: The Resilient Writer Michael Allen 2005

  • Hatton has thirty years of experience of getting scientific papers published, but describes this one, available on his personal website, as "unpublishable".

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Hatton has thirty years of experience of getting scientific papers published, but describes this one, available on his personal website, as "unpublishable".

    The Register Team Register 2010

  • Hatton has thirty years of experience of getting scientific papers published, but describes this one, available on his personal website, as "unpublishable".

    Irons in the Fire Firehand 2010

  • Hatton has thirty years of experience of getting scientific papers published, but describes this one, available on his personal website, as "unpublishable".

    The Register Team Register 2010

  • On the liberal Internet angle, where I normally get dozens of "hate e-mail" over what I write, and usually quite a few "unpublishable" comments on the Political Pistachio site, there was complete silence.

    Canada Free Press 2009

  • On the liberal Internet angle, where I normally get dozens of "hate e-mail" over what I write, and usually quite a few "unpublishable" comments on the Political Pistachio site, there was complete silence.

    Canada Free Press 2009

  • The JACNet project aims to publish previously "unpublishable" stories involving graft and corruption in government through a website accessible to a global audience.

    American Chronicle 2008

  • I just didn't have the drive for it ... in large part because I was in a publishing mindset, and Shayara, as it is, seems unpublishable.

    Monday theferrett 2009

  • Chris misses the point that the number of "fixed point" style papers has exploded in the journals, while good mathematics at the level of the JPE in 1964 are unpublishable in many top journals.

    Caldwell, Hayek, and Math, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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