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ul·tra-com·mer·cial | \ ˌəl-trə-kə-ˈmər-shəl 
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or ultracommercial
Definition of ultra-commercial
: designed exclusively for quick market success as opposed to quality or artistic merit
an ultracommercial movie … the sort of ultra-commercial, high gloss Top 40 pop that made Daphne & Celeste famous in the first place.— Cameron Cook … the British middle-classes … disdained the very worst of crass, mass-produced, ultra-commercial culture.— Alex Proud
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The first known use of ultra-commercial was in 1889
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