untelevisable

untelevisable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ televisable

Adjective

untelevisable (comparative more untelevisable, superlative most untelevisable)

1. 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.