ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Untelevisable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Untelevisable is an adjective meaning Not televisable; unsuitable for television.

Meaning

Not televisable; unsuitable for television.

Example Sentences

It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it.
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.
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[…]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include untelevised, unbroadcastable, unairable, unfilmable, unvisitable, unentertainable.

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