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Unprintable   /ənprˈɪntəbəl/   Listen
Unprintable

adjective
1.
Unfit for print because morally or legally objectionable or offensive to good taste.  "Unprintable pictures"






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"Unprintable" Quotes from Famous Books



... worse in appearance instead of better. The other is likely to be productive of slipping out of position, the hold not being retained, and vexatious results ensuing with the accompaniment occasionally of unprintable language coming from the repairer. The best way on all occasions will be found to be that in which patience is not taken as a virtue but as necessity, and the presence of Old Father Time altogether ignored, which may often mean time saved. Constant practice may give facility in keeping pace ...
— The Repairing & Restoration of Violins - 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. • Horace Petherick

... could hardly keep himself sufficiently stiff and awkward. His Grace was in the sourest of humours for, as the talk showed, he had been beaten. The claymores had taken the conceit out of him finely. He finished the subject with a string of oaths and then made an unprintable inquiry of Brocton concerning me. The ladies tittered profusely, and the most powdery one vowed that His Grace was a great wag. In further proof of this he snatched a feather near a yard long out of her pompom, and fanned himself with it while ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough



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