unmarketable
adjective
un·mar·ket·able
ˌən-ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl 
: not marketable
especially
: not fit to be offered for sale
an unmarketable commodity
… the bulk of the herring might release their eggs before they can be caught, rendering them unmarketable. —
Jon Krakauer
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Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 26 July 2025
However, the unintended fallout is this: Entire communities have become unmarketable overnight, property values are plummeting, and average Floridians are stuck, unable to sell, refinance or move.
—Peter S. Sachs, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2025
This fragmentation resulted in an unmarketable product.
—Philip Brittan, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Despite this, menopause was still seen as an unmarketable subject.
—Jane Hanson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
So this real country tune, which should have been more popular, and maybe turned into a National Rifle Association theme song, was so unmarketable that not even Yvette Noel-Schure could sell it.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 Feb. 2024
For all that, the movie proved almost heroically unmarketable, and decidedly un-Spielbergian in its aversion to uplift.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
Staff Pick: From unmarketable to ‘transcendental’ After agreeing to a record-breaking $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani has suddenly become the world's most famous baseball player.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
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“Unmarketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmarketable. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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