Definitions
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- adjective Not
sellable . - noun Something that cannot be sold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective impossible to sell
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Examples
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Along the way, I've been treated to lousy herring by Gary Shteyngart, regaled with unprintable, really yucky stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, upbraided for a really dumb reason by Jeffrey Eugenides, and had my debut novel rejected as "unsaleable" by an agent about a year after it had already been sold.
Anis Shivani: Adam Langer, Author of "The Thieves of Manhattan": Exclusive Huffington Post Interview 2010
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"unsaleable" food items are collected as a part of the nationwide charitable program aimed at bolstering food bank supplies and reducing retail food waste.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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The myth of Jack Smith that has emerged tells us of a man who is by today's standards politically incorrect; unsaleable; indulgent in camp Orientalism; the lord of a subversive underground that is no more.
G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness G. Roger Denson 2011
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Was it fair that some villagers' properties had been made unsaleable by the site's proximity?
TV review: The Slap; The Future State of Welfare; Panorama – Dale Farm: the Big Eviction 2011
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The myth of Jack Smith that has emerged tells us of a man who is by today's standards politically incorrect; unsaleable; indulgent in camp Orientalism; the lord of a subversive underground that is no more.
G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness G. Roger Denson 2011
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Sure, some indie books are unsaleable and some indie authors unprofessional, but you'll find unsaleable product and unprofessional behavior in any industry, including the legacy publishing world itself.
Hillary Rettig: An Open Letter to America's Independent Booksellers Hillary Rettig 2012
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I really don't care about the banks being left with unsaleable properties; the people are a little more important, wouldn't you think? tpn
Eco-Flipping: One Upside of Housing Downturn « PubliCola 2010
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And we had started renovating our house just long enough to demolish half and make it unlivable and unsaleable.
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Leavings of dog's flesh, putrid and unsaleable, flung to us by the mocking butchers; MINARI, a water-cress gathered from stagnant pools of slime; spoiled KIMCHI that would revolt the stomachs of peasants and that could be smelled a mile.
Chapter 15 2010
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Sure, some indie books are unsaleable and some indie authors unprofessional, but you'll find unsaleable product and unprofessional behavior in any industry, including the legacy publishing world itself.
Hillary Rettig: An Open Letter to America's Independent Booksellers Hillary Rettig 2012
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