unsaleable
IPA: ʌnsˈeɪɫʌbʌɫ
noun
- Something that cannot be sold.
adjective
- Not sellable.
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Examples of "unsaleable" in Sentences
- Was it fair that some villagers' properties had been made unsaleable by the site's proximity?
- And we had started renovating our house just long enough to demolish half and make it unlivable and unsaleable.
- 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
- "unsaleable" food items are collected as a part of the nationwide charitable program aimed at bolstering food bank supplies and reducing retail food waste.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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