unsaleable

comparative more unsaleable · superlative most unsaleable · alternative unsalable

1. Not sellable.

   When Torso, a gay male magazine, arrived at Little Sister's bookstore this month, 42 out of 75 pages had been ripped out of it, making it unsaleable.

   1986 February 15, Kim Westheimer, “Canada Censors U.S. Gay, Lesbian Magazines”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 3

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   Rita was drifting about the shop one morning, and had stopped to meditate glumly over an unsaleable collection of old chairs, when a little old man entered the shop and stopped to eject a loud snort at the chairs, too.

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 62

   After the fully documented records have been made available for study by experts of other railways in a few months' time, the high-powered diesel-hydraulic locomotive might become an increasingly unsaleable commodity in world markets.

   1963 January, G. Freeman Allen, “Why B.R. are dropping high-power diesel-hydraulics”, in Modern Railways, page 25

   Synonyms: unsellable, unmerchantable, unmarketable · Antonyms: salable, sellable, merchantable, marketable

plural unsaleables · alternative unsalable

1. Something that cannot be sold.