unsalable
IPA: ʌnsˈeɪɫʌbʌɫ
noun
- (US) Something that cannot be sold.
adjective
- Not salable; unmerchantable.
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Examples of "unsalable" in Sentences
- However, unsalable though it be, it's awful purty.
- Why do you think publishers find these stories so "unsalable"?
- The mortgage-backed securities the banks had bought became unsalable and lost much of their value.
- I was also on a mission to convince my favorite local fishmonger, Blue Moon Fish, to carry eel, because they were so plentiful in the waters but were thought to be unsalable.
- But Holly Lisle tells the cautionary tale of her romance-writing effort, which ended in a very bad and unsalable novel because her interest was not in the romance genre, but fantasy.
- Depending on your point of view, it would either wisely curtail unhealthy development in rural areas, or strangle the economic future of hardworking farmers by rendering their land unsalable.
- Last July, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that Johnson is entitled to damages from the pesticide cooperative that contaminated his fields, rendering his crop unsalable in the organic market.
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