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untelevisable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + televisable.

Meanings

1. Not televisable; unsuitable for television.
   • It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it. 1973, The Listener, volume 91:
   • We were very cognizant that a horrendously large part of this whole audience would be viewers on television, and so it would be foolish, I thought, to create a set that was untelevisable. 1979, Sidney Kraus, Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, The Great Debates: Carter vs. Ford, 1976:
   • Now that TV has replaced movies as the mass entertainment medium, Hollywood has responded with untelevisable sex — not Doris Day, twin-bed sex, but moaning, thrashing, rolling-around-naked sex[…] 1969, Harper's Bazaar, volume 102:

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