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Unsalable   Listen
adjective
Unsalable  adj.  Not salable; unmerchantable.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unsalable" Quotes from Famous Books



... was to make money with money—and how difficult, how very nearly impossible it was for the penniless man to secure more than a living by his utmost exertion. If this timber holding should turn out to be worthless, if it should prove unsalable at any price, it would be a question of a job for him, before so very long. With the handicap of his face! With that universal inclination of people to avoid him because they disliked to look on the direct result ...
— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... these buds grew into peaches, and were left on these slender boughs, the tree might be killed outright by overbearing, and would assuredly be much injured and disfigured by broken limbs and exhaustion, while the fruit itself would be so small and poor as to be unsalable. Thousands of trees annually perish from this cause, and millions of peaches are either not picked, or, if marketed, may bring the grower into debt for freight and other expenses. A profitable crop of peaches can only be grown ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe

... for lady's-slippers in the marshy ground at the head of the gorge. A few steps more and she would be on her own property, a steep, rocky tract of brushland left her by her great-uncle. She had a throb as she realized that, besides her house and garden, this unsalable bit of the mountainside was her only remaining possession. She had ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield



Words linked to "Unsalable" :   unsaleable, unmerchantable, salable, unvendible



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