unmarketableadj.

1654 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1887) IV. 112 Roger Royle of Eccles for sellinge vnmarkettable Beefe.

1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 139/2 A parcel of hops..badly cured, and, on that account, unmarketable.

1800 G. G. Stonestreet Portentous Globe 33 Their trade would be rendered unprofitable—their shares unmarketable.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iv. 66 His own ill-favoured person, which was quite unmarketable, escaped without injury.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 93/2 Rabble fish. Unmarketable or inedible fish, e.g., dog-fish, ray, etc.

2007 Time Out N.Y. 26 July 72/1 Joseph Marti is assigned by the unemployment office to work as a clerk for Herr Tobler, a blinkered inventor of unmarketable devices.

1860 Law Times 25 Feb. 263/1 This suit has come to pass in ample justification of the Registration Commissioners' catalogue of..apprehension of risk, loss of deeds, consequent unmarketability, [etc.].

1958 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 25 356 Strict zoning enforcement cannot operate effectively against adverse factors of obsolescence and unmarketability.

2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 2 Dec. 74 Ford may think Chalayan is a thrilling conceptualist, but he is also aware of his unmarketability..and chose not to bankroll his company.

1845 Lit. Gaz. 2 Aug. 508/2 That objection is the unmarketableness of American books in America, owing to our defective law of copyright.

1928 Financial Times 19 Nov. 6/2 Unmarketableness, from whatever cause, is anathema to him [sc. the modern investment manager].

2005 D. D. Moses Pursued by Bear 85 Persistently doing poetry and (to add perversely to my unmarketableness) plays.