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unmarketable

American  
[uhn-mahr-kit-uh-buhl] / ˌʌnˈmɑr kɪt ə bəl /

adjective

  1. not able to be marketed; not suitable for sale or the market.


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There followed a long period when silent films were virtually unmarketable, and the lifework of many actors and directors disappeared into warehouses or dissolved into silver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Furthermore, trawling doesn't discriminate, frequently scooping up aquatic life that is unmarketable, or sometimes even illegal to fish, right along with any desired catch.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024

For all that, the movie proved almost heroically unmarketable, and decidedly un-Spielbergian in its aversion to uplift.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

For real strangeness in novels, you usually have to voyage to lands that still tolerate the obdurate, the sleazy, the resentful, the offline and any other attributes presently considered unmarketable.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2022

Some leaf crops were so burned and spotted as to be unmarketable.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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