unpresentable
Americanadjective
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not fit to appear or interact with others in public; shabby, unkempt, badly dressed, or having poor manners.
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not suitable to be presented or proposed for a particular role or purpose; not meeting prevailing standards.
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“But it’s not the reality of today. So me, I want to give that child the best. Is that unpresentable? Is that the monster? No, I’m not a monster.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
Groban, meanwhile, has done best to make himself unpresentable for the role, with matted-down hair and a padded belly.
From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2017
Why is he arguing that racism is unpresentable, not simply unacceptable?
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2016
If Reddit’s decorum is often unpresentable, its home page and community pages can be downright indecipherable to new visitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2015
He could only imagine how unpresentable he looked, but he purposely didn’t imagine it because the embarrassment would be too great.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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