unadvertised

adjective

un·​ad·​ver·​tised ˌən-ˈad-vər-ˌtīzd How to pronounce unadvertised (audio)
: not publically announced or made known in an advertisement : not advertised
unadvertised discounts
The concert sold out despite being unadvertised.

Examples of unadvertised in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Apparently, Hyundai sent an unadvertised bulletin to dealers saying the 2024 IONIQ 6 SE can be leased for $0 down, and $239 per month. Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024 In suing Amazon for anti-competitive behavior last year, the Federal Trade Commission suggested that advertised products are 46 times more likely to get clicks than unadvertised ones. Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2024 This summer, restaurants and bars cannot tack on unadvertised service fees and other additional charges to the check after your meal. Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024 The result — a private, unadvertised performance by Ed Sheeran next Friday at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — is a major coup for Curebound. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023 His team has also been inviting reporters from a variety of outlets to ride aboard his plane and has been arranging unadvertised stops at local restaurants and other venues to show him interacting with cheering supporters, in contrast to the less charismatic DeSantis. Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 10 May 2023 All of which would have been fine in a more intimate setting; the set was often like an unadvertised gig where an artist premieres new material — or, more accurately, the one-offs that an even more reclusive R&B star, D’Angelo, played in the long gaps between his tours. Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Apr. 2023 After 9/11, Sam was embedded with the Navy in Iraq, as part of the bureau’s largely unadvertised C.E.X.C. Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023 But there are also unadvertised programs. Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 18 June 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1864, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unadvertised was in 1864

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“Unadvertised.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unadvertised. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

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