Uncommercial

Describing anything that harms commerce. For example, a law that requires businesses to pay confiscatory taxes may be described as uncommercial.

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4 HADEWIJCH (Bruno Dumont) In this grim, fiercely uncommercial movie, a fanatical Catholic young lady from a rich family hooks up with a handsome male Muslim terrorist, and together they blow up a commuter train.

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Otherwise, we wouldn't have been playing Bebop because it was the most uncommercial music ever made.

FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

(Unsurprisingly, the London publishers to whom Carson originally sent the manuscript of The Pen Friend considered it deeply uncommercial.) This is unmistakably a novel written by a poet whose sense of the porousness of language speaks to both a post-modern sensibility and the acute ear of a bilingual writer; Carson was born into an Irish-speaking Belfast family and published his translation of The Tain in 2007.

Belle lettre

Aberdyfi is a lovely, laid-back, uncommercial place and it's terribly exciting for the Prince to come and show his support."

Royal assignment

The service is uncommercial and based on self service.

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A forlorn and utterly uncommercial sounding record, its slowburning songs grow with each listen.

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The Uncommercial Traveller and Reprinted Pieces Etc.

Two Dickensian features of style

To many it may be unconventional and uncommercial. To others it's what music is all about.

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Cairn Energy finds uncommercial natural gas offshore Greenland

Two wells were drilled on the acreage in the first Falkland Islands drilling campaign in 1998 but the wells were plugged and abandoned as uncommercial after having oil shows.

Falkland Islands : Argos Resources raises A322 million to join Falkland Islands exploration party

Entertainment weekly described "Congratulations" as "strikingly uncommercial," while Rolling Stone called it a "hazy, hit-and-miss album that will likely alienate some fans of the debut, but one that also testifies to MGMT s restlessness as songwriters and human beings."

Pop duo MGMT defies critics on "Congratulations"

Maybe the album - difficult, uncommercial and quite dull, was the problem?

THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC... Rock/PopMusic: The industry is alive and kicking despite the mongers of doom