unputdownability
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Better to adapt the slogan of Count Mippipopolous in The Sun Also Rises who, when Jake suggests he should write a book about wine, answers: “All I want out of wines, Mr. Barnes, is to enjoy them,” and say: “All I want out of novels is to be able to read them.” Yet this quality of buttonholing readability, or unputdownability, is an important phenomenon. Some of the very greatest writers have it, as well as the most expert yarn-spinners and avowed entertainers."
- "But romance it is, and the ‘unputdownability’ of The Day of the Jackal is a professional and decorous assembly of original and fore-ordained ingredients from a quintessentially romantic genre."
- "Both go down with the ease of a Dirty Shirley, but neither captured my heart or attained that overused marketing promise of “unputdownability.”"