untelevisable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + televisable.
Adjective
[edit]untelevisable (comparative more untelevisable, superlative most untelevisable)
- Not televisable; unsuitable for television.
- 1969, Harper's Bazaar, volume 102:
- 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 […]
- 1973, The Listener, volume 91:
- It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it.
- 1979, Sidney Kraus, Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, The Great Debates: Carter vs. Ford, 1976:
- 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.