unsalable
adjective
un·sal·able
ˌən-ˈsā-lə-bəl 
: unfit or unable to be sold : not salable
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… television was the last stop on the retail journey, a way to unload merchandise deemed unsalable by any other means.—
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His books are frequently both excellent and unsalable.
—Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
Guston retreated to his home and studio in Woodstock, New York, returned to teaching, and spent his last, enormously productive decade churning out mad, masterful, largely unsalable paintings of people and things behaving badly.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
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Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
Guston retreated to his home and studio in Woodstock, New York, returned to teaching, and spent his last, enormously productive decade churning out mad, masterful, largely unsalable paintings of people and things behaving badly.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
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“Unsalable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unsalable. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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