unpresentable

adjective

un·​presentable

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: not presentable

especially : having a disreputable or unprepossessing character, background, or appearance

unpresentable friends … sometimes fleeing from the police

—Upton Sinclair

unpresentableness noun

plural -es

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined above

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