unadvertising

English

Etymology

un- +‎ advertising

Adjective

unadvertising (comparative more unadvertising, superlative most unadvertising)

1. That does not advertise.
   • 1990, Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism, page viii:

     And I do think the debt I owe to the ingenuity of the unadvertising David Kay should be recognized: his KayPro was, for me, the most liberating intellectual enabler of my experience […]

   • 1992, Mari Sandoz, Helen Winter Stauffer, Letters of Mari Sandoz, page 355:

     This scarcity of review books, coupled with an unknown and unadvertising publisher strengthened the growing rumor that the book was a piece of vanity publication, a book to let alone.