Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So poorly written and unentertaining as to be easily put down. Used especially of a book.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a book) poorly written and not entertaining
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Examples
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They regarded his novels as highly putdownable -- that is, worthy of putdowns.
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Things got off to a slowish start and I wasn't in my usual un-putdownable Peggy mode, I could take or leave this book and mostly I left it, took it to London for train reading, read the newspaper instead.
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Things got off to a slowish start and I wasn't in my usual un-putdownable Peggy mode, I could take or leave this book and mostly I left it, took it to London for train reading, read the newspaper instead.
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Things got off to a slowish start and I wasn't in my usual un-putdownable Peggy mode, I could take or leave this book and mostly I left it, took it to London for train reading, read the newspaper instead.
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Things got off to a slowish start and I wasn't in my usual un-putdownable Peggy mode, I could take or leave this book and mostly I left it, took it to London for train reading, read the newspaper instead.
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Things got off to a slowish start and I wasn't in my usual un-putdownable Peggy mode, I could take or leave this book and mostly I left it, took it to London for train reading, read the newspaper instead.
Brit Lit Blogs 2009
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Things got off to a slowish start and I wasn't in my usual un-putdownable Peggy mode, I could take or leave this book and mostly I left it, took it to London for train reading, read the newspaper instead.
Brit Lit Blogs 2009
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This stance may alarm Dan Green, who has recently and quite rightly taken to task the “current literary culture mired in middlebrow mediocrity” and the mystifying hosannas granted to Amy Bloom’s quite putdownable novel, Away.
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