Whenever describing something that is seldom looked for or desired I often verbalise it with "ill sought after"
without hesitating.
(ignore that ill
is its own word, the trouble I'm having writing it in the question..is the question)
However, I went to write an email with this phrase and no matter how I wrote it it looked really odd.
ilsought after
? I don't think that's a word, maybe I could coin it with a cheeky hyphenil-sought after
? Seems like I'm only negating sought, not the whole phraseil-sought-after
? No, no, I need help now.
So, is there a different prefix I'm supposed to be using? Should sought after
be hyphenated? Is there already a phrase that already means this I'm forgetting? (I really like 'sought after', though..)
Answer
You can simply use "unsought" as an adjective instead.
The product was not sought-after by customers.
The product was unsought by customers.
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