Definition of "unsaleable" []

• Not sellable. (adjective)
• Something that cannot be sold. (noun)

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• "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."
• ""unsaleable" food items are collected as a part of the nationwide charitable program aimed at bolstering food bank supplies and reducing retail food waste."
• "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."