ADJECTIVE
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liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to
found the politician's views objectionable
a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing
How To Use exceptionable In A Sentence
- This first conclusion seems unexceptionable.
- So far as the fees of those instructing me are concerned, the hourly rate of £1.20 I submit is not exceptionable.
- It is poor style as well as exceptionable grammar to use 'prior to' as a compound preposition. Times, Sunday Times
- As a statement of society's moral consensus Shell's point is unexceptionable.
- Applying this principle to acciaccatura, we would first want a dictionary to give a pronunciation considered unexceptionable by those who know musical terms well and know their Italian pronunciations; and then, if there is room and if the dictionary aims to be comprehensively descriptive, we want it to note that there are alternatives that stray from the Italian original. Languagehat.com: TRAI(T).
- We've always had a very traditional and unexceptionable kind of service here. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
- Binet," said he, "forget for once that you are Pantaloon, and behave as a nice, amiable father-in-law should behave when he has secured a son-in-law of exceptionable merits. Scaramouche
- But as a RULE OF THUMB, the dictum is perfectly unexceptionable and modestly useful. Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
- III.v. 48 (305, 8) [That can entame ay spirits to your worship] [W: entraine] The common reading seems unexceptionable. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
- Their belief in the worth and dignity of all human beings is unexceptionable.
