merchantable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- merchantableness noun
- unmerchantable adjective
Etymology
Origin of merchantable
Example Sentences
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Its quality, owing to frost damage, is not quite so good, and the merchantable quantity is estimated at 79.4% compared with 85% in 1922.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses.
From Time Magazine Archive
He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we are not mistaken, it may even be said that the degree of refinement that a community has attained is discernible by taking as a standpoint the merchantable character of truth.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian
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