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adj. - Not able to be drawn, especially not suitable for artistic representation on canvas.

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  • The inexpressible, unpaintable `tick' in the unconscious
  • Little painters are always choosing their subjects and explaining that this or that may be pretty or interesting, but they will tell you it is "unpaintable"
  • When Reckage asked Rennes whether he found Miss Carillon "unpaintable," the artist was conscious of a swift, piercing emotion, which passed, indeed, but left an ache.
  • Andy's face was an almost unpaintable mixture of glee and understanding.
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