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Definition of "unpublishable" []

  • Unfit for publication: an unpublishable manuscript. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unpublishable" in a sentence
  • "My objection to Catherine Wald and those who think like her is that they raise totally unrealistic hopes in what I call the unpublishable classes."
  • "Hatton has thirty years of experience of getting scientific papers published, but describes this one, available on his personal website, as "unpublishable"."
  • "On the liberal Internet angle, where I normally get dozens of "hate e-mail" over what I write, and usually quite a few "unpublishable" comments on the Political Pistachio site, there was complete silence."