unadvertising en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + advertising.
Meanings
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That does not advertise.
And I do think the debt I owe to the ingenuity of the unadvertising David Kay should be recognized: his KayPro was, for me, the most liberating intellectual enabler of my experience […]
1990, Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism, page viii:This scarcity of review books, coupled with an unknown and unadvertising publisher strengthened the growing rumor that the book was a piece of vanity publication, a book to let alone.
1992, Mari Sandoz, Helen Winter Stauffer, Letters of Mari Sandoz, page 355:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more unadvertising | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most unadvertising | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |