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unprintworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + printworthy.

Meanings

1. Not printworthy.
   • As we were led past all that machinery, it felt as if we had returned to the nineteenth century, when ideas, to become strong, had to become physical, to knock down trees, be quantified in reams and sextodecimos and print runs; a place where the Internet didn’t exist and blogs—proliferating, immeasurable ideas—were dismissed as the unprintworthy’s delusions of grandeur. 2013, Stephen Twilley, transl., The Story of My Purity, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translation of Storia della mia purezza by Francesco Pacifico, →ISBN, page 109:
   • The risks taken by the purchasers, who might have found themselves with an unprintworthy loser about a loser, were minimal since their guarantees were low; but by prearrangement, further payments were called for when Reagan emerged the winner. 1981, Publishers Weekly, page 40, column 1:
   • Jenna’s always so smart, Becka wrote, her pen tangling itself on the unprintworthy “smarter than me.” 2000, Abby Frucht, “Doc”, in Polly’s Ghost: A Novel, Scribner, →ISBN, part three, page 210:

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