Definitions

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  • adjective of a painting unable to be hung (or sold), especially because of its sexual content
  • adjective of a book unable to be published, for the same reason

Etymologies

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Literally "unhangable", from French accrocher ("to hang (etc.)")

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Examples

  • Some of it falls into the category made famous by Gertrude Stein when she used the word inaccrochable.

    Winging It Bruce Schauble 2007

  • Some of it falls into the category made famous by Gertrude Stein when she used the word inaccrochable.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • I could have expressed myself more vividly by using an inaccrochable phrase that wolves used on the lake boats, “Oh gash may be fine but one eye for mine.”

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • I could have expressed myself more vividly by using an inaccrochable phrase that wolves used on the lake boats, “Oh gash may be fine but one eye for mine.”

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • She told me that I was not a good enough writer to be published there or in The Saturday Evening Post but that I might be some new sort of writer in my own way but the first thing to remember was not to write stories that were inaccrochable.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • I had never had it copied because she said it was inaccrochable.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • I had never had it copied because she said it was inaccrochable.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • She told me that I was not a good enough writer to be published there or in The Saturday Evening Post but that I might be some new sort of writer in my own way but the first thing to remember was not to write stories that were inaccrochable.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • I knew many inaccrochable terms and phrases from Kansas City days and the mores of different parts of that city, Chicago and the lake boats.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • I knew many inaccrochable terms and phrases from Kansas City days and the mores of different parts of that city, Chicago and the lake boats.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

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