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unprintable

[ uhn-prin-tuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. improper or unfit for print, especially because of obscenity or offensiveness.


unprintable

/ ʌnˈprɪntəbəl /

adjective

  1. unsuitable for printing for reasons of obscenity, libel, bad taste, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • unˈprintably, adverb
  • unˈprintableness, noun
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Other Words From

  • un·printa·ble·ness noun
  • un·printa·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of unprintable1

First recorded in 1855–60; un- 1 + printable
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Example Sentences

I’ve used plenty of unprintable language while subjected to the “Earth 2” rhetoric of Fox News or the lies and conspiracies shared by folks like Musk.

These words are often unprintable, but flinging slurs is not substantively different than what Vance and Trump are doing with false accusations that Haitian immigrants are "eating the cats."

From Salon

Biden aides say, sometimes in unprintable language, that they don’t need so much free advice.

The sounds of people laughing were interrupted by loud thuds of heads hitting rocks or pipes, followed by more laughing — and words unprintable in a family newspaper.

There was a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that rhymed “bucket” with a phrase that is unprintable here.

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