unpublishable

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Recent Examples of unpublishable Danielle Carr Given too much room to roam, an Adderall article or essay can become overly ambitious, wandering and sprawling out into a totally unreadable (and unpublishable) manifesto that usually ends up foundering under the weight of overload. Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 26 Mar. 2024 Wayne acknowledged the catch with some unpublishable praise. Calum McAndrew, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024 Another invective suggesting an unhealthy and unpublishable appreciation of sheep emerged from the Irish actor's mouth and astounded Devine. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023 The book was probably unpublishable. Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022 See All Example Sentences for unpublishable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpublishable
Adjective
  • Banners or signs may not be commercial in nature or obscene, or cause any disturbance to other fans.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Workers described incidents of verbal and physical abuse, including reports from women workers who said they had been manhandled and subjected to obscene remarks and threats.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Like its more famous cousin from Willendorf, the depicted woman looks less like a person than like a pornographic composite of breasts, hips, and labia.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Jessica Guistolise, Megan Hurley and Molly Kelley talk with CNBC in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 11, 2025, about fake pornographic images and videos depicting their faces made by their mutual friend Ben using AI site DeepSwap.
    Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of the European players were subjected to dreadful abuse from the galleries, unprintable vulgarities and some deeply personal insults.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Many of them uncharitable and nasty, some of them vulgar and unprintable.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Morris, 64, entered guilty pleas to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child in an Osage County courtroom.
    Nolan Clay, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In Osage County District Court on Thursday, Morris, 64, admitted to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
  • This is part of a familiar pattern, and one that speaks to my new habit of using smutty books as masturbation material on a weekly basis.
    Rebecca Fearn, Refinery29, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Trying to expose the trafficking, abuse, and the filthy networks that protect the wealthy and powerful puts you in danger.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Unitree claims that the G1 is made to handle difficult, filthy, and repetitive jobs in a variety of settings, including at homes, factories, and hospitals.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The sound is characterized by raunchy, self-referential lyrics sprinkled with hyperspecific jargon and layered entendres.
    Ana González Vilá, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Then came another game, where Yang was asked to cold-read a fake and very raunchy podcast ad.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In response, Baxter and many other trans artists prefer to play with such perceptions, frustrating the gaze of prurient onlookers.
    Grace Byron, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • First, would the work as whole be seen as prurient by an ordinary person using community standards.
    Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Unpublishable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpublishable. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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