Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not proper for publication for legal or social reasons: unprintable remarks.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not printable; obscene, or that cannot be displayed textually.
- n. Something that is not printable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unfit for print because morally or legally objectionable or offensive to good taste
Etymologies
- un- + print + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They also star as Ronnie and Sammi, whose hot/cold romance is celebrated in an impassioned duet with a title unprintable here.”
“Commenting on the Post's hiring of Mr. Ayers, conservative blogger Ace of Spades called Mrs. Huffington a name unprintable in a family newspaper and then looked on the half-full part of the glass.”
“Beyond that lay Gordon’s land, a graveyard for Conservatives, home of the murky Scottish Labour party and a press corps whom Mr Blair once described with a phrase unprintable in this magazine.”
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
“With every second word unprintable, McCrimmon anathematized the world in general and Alexandria in particular for five full minutes without repeating himself once.”
“The collection's title unprintable here was a reference to the late G. G. Allin, a punk musician infamous for mutilating himself on stage.”
“Codes below 32 were called unprintable and were used for cussing.”
“When I'm called unprintable names merely for expressing my skepticism about the relevance of Darwin's theory to the practice of medicine, I've already won the 'ethos' and 'pathos' skirmishes.”
“It is true that independent and dispassionate criticism of the so-called 'unprintable' books, criticism in the common interest of publishers, authors, and readers, is now almost nonexistent.”
“I say "unprintable"; and in justice I must also say unthinkable.”
“The father-of-two says his long-suffering wife's initial reaction to his latest feat of derring-do was "unprintable", but she is now fully behind the charity mission.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unprintable’.
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Why We Curse: WTF?
This list collects the magnificent collection of vocabulary of the article "What the F***? Why We Curse," by Steven Pinker, in The New Republic (Oct. 2007). I think I'm more impressed with the coll...
curse, language, earthy, ancient, unthinkable, thinkable, emotional, rhyme, meter, alliteration, pleasure, metaphor and 196 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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