How To Use Exceptionable In A Sentence
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This first conclusion seems unexceptionable.
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So far as the fees of those instructing me are concerned, the hourly rate of £1.20 I submit is not exceptionable.
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It is poor style as well as exceptionable grammar to use 'prior to' as a compound preposition.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a statement of society's moral consensus Shell's point is unexceptionable.
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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).
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We've always had a very traditional and unexceptionable kind of service here.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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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
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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
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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
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Their belief in the worth and dignity of all human beings is unexceptionable.
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We've always had a very traditional and unexceptionable kind of service here.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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… While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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I believe that the problem in this country is that we have a culture in which most of the population see getting drunk as unexceptionable and, in fact, a bit of a laugh.
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He may telegraph from his country much news which is unexceptionable.
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Her comments were perfectly unexceptionable if a little unhelpful.
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If the motion is to refer the bill to a select committee, then I think that is unexceptionable.
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In a civilized country, one would think, legislation to protect kids from violence and harassment in their schools should be unexceptionable.
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entirely unexceptionable -- he would never have to undergo the embarrassment of complete acknowledgement.
THE SCAR
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Mr. Harcourt and his outrigger were again skimming on the surface and floating about Rose; Mr. Greydon either had some excuse for calling on Arthur, or called without any excuse at all, except the old hackneyed one of "the fatality," and by his manner to Janet, Blanche was led to the comfortable conviction that, by giving Mr. Greydon this living, she should at once provide her village with an unexceptionable pastor, and pay off some of her debt of gratitude to the Hopkinson family.
The Semi-Detached House
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It is unexceptionable to note that an obsession with violence has always been characteristic of American movies.
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Though this may be unexceptionable enough from the point of view of gender, it's a messy and ungainly solution stylistically, and one to be avoided.
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The school's unexceptionable purpose is to involve parents more closely in the education of their children.
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The purpose seems unexceptionable in its modesty.
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A judge's ethics should be unexceptionable.
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When you recall what most civilized climates are like, "unexceptionable," that cold and formal word, may well take your breath away.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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The Haunted House," by the same author, is one of the truest poems ever written; one of the _truest_, one of the most unexceptionable, one of the most thoroughly artistic both in its theme and in its execution.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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On one level, the idea is unexceptionable, indeed worthy of applause.
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For its part, instead of an honest effort to give the country an independent anticorruption czar—an unexceptionable goal in itself, if only a partial solution to the problem—the government has raised extraneous issues such as caste and religious quotas in the proposed new body.
Delhi's Year of Drama and Stasis
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It is good that authors should be remunerated and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly, yet monopoly is an evil for the sake of the good.
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entirely unexceptionable -- he would never have to undergo the embarrassment of complete acknowledgement.
THE SCAR
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None could see this truth clearly but an enthusiast in diet like Epicurus, who, discovering the unexceptionableness of the natural law, proceeded to the work of adaptation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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Isn't that a bit of a stretch from a fairly unexceptionable paragraph?
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These are unexceptionable propositions, but there is more to the urban environment than that.
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It is an observation, unexceptionable today, that fiscal policy affects the economy.
The Civility Plea, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners.
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Based on news accounts and these excerpts, his speech seems to have been unexceptionable (albeit platitudinous).
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Nevertheless, his book carries in it a certain large suggestion; it contains many excellent observations; its tone is unexceptionable; the style is firm and clear, though heavy and disfigured by such intolerable barbarisms as "commence to" walk, talk, or the like, -- the use of the infinitive instead of the participle after _commence_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
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two unexceptionable witnesses
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This was an unexceptionable statement with which George would not have argued; but by itself it said little.
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The school's unexceptionable purpose is to involve parents more closely in the education of their children.
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Such generalities are, for the most part, unexceptionable.
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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
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As conspiracy, it's too probable to be either exceptionable or particularly interesting.
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a judge's ethics should be unexceptionable
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He may telegraph from his country much news which is unexceptionable.
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For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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The law would be rightly open to ridicule, for transactions such as these are unexceptionable.
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The candidate was quite unexceptionable, a well-known travel writer and TV personality.
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While I think his ethical position is, if uninteresting, unexceptionable enough, his refusal to confront the political connection Foucault makes except with such bland dismissiveness is insufficient precisely because uninteresting.
Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality'
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a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing
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Now a retour is a writ returned from the Court of Attorney, testifying the service of every succeeding heir; and is therefore an unexceptionable evidence of paying his predecessor's debts, and of performing his obligations and deeds.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
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Understood in this weak way, it is unexceptionable to construe the interrogative mood as used for asking questions, the imperatival mood as used for issuing commands, and so on.
Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
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Yet later he admitted quantum mechanics doesn't contain any logical contradictions and is logically unexceptionable.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Could This Theory Provide A Glimpse Of Our Ultimate Destiny?
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The candidate was quite unexceptionable, a well-known travel writer and TV personality.
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The candidate was quite unexceptionable, a well-known travel writer and TV personality.
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There is nothing intrinsically wrong with, or legally exceptionable about, that.
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During the latter part of the term his conduct had not been by any means "unexceptionable"; but it was part of Gabrielle's queer policy of secrecy to hide any lapse on Arthur's part from her husband.
The Tragic Bride
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The word ‘weird’ seems a bit extreme, with ‘surprising’ being less exceptionable, but McKeon put the bat on the ball.
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Frankly speaking, there is nothing exceptionable in his conduct.
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The school's unexceptionable purpose is to involve parents more closely in the education of their children.
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Timothy (though not having the name) exercised the power at Ephesus then, which bishops in the modern sense more recently exercised. blameless -- "unexceptionable"; giving no just handle for blame. husband of one wife -- confuting the celibacy of Rome's priesthood.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Baxter's early religious teachers were more exceptionable than even the maudlin mummer whom Roberts speaks of, one of them being "the excellentest stage - player in all the country, and a good gamester and goodfellow, who, having received Holy Orders, forged the like for a neighbor's son, who on the strength of that title officiated at the desk and altar; and after him came an attorney's clerk, who had tippled himself into so great poverty that he had no other way to live than to preach.
The Complete Works of Whittier
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The candidate was quite unexceptionable, a well-known travel writer and TV personality.
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Whenever I have met Paul, I have found him to be entirely unexceptionable company.
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Upon this object, centred all princely honours; he was by Augustus adopted for his son, assumed Colleague in the Empire, partner in the jurisdiction tribunitial, and presented under all these dignities to the several armies: instances of grandeur which were no longer derived from the secret schemes and plottings of his mother, as in times past, while her husband had unexceptionable heirs of his own, but thenceforth bestowed at her open suit.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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Despite these unexceptionable advantages, critics have objected to the land tax on the following grounds.
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These demands, for a deeper and more genuine federalism, were unexceptionable.
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For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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It is the death of an unexceptionable mother in service of the state that brings to the poem's surface such resistant words as "madden" and "rebel.
Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron
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In response to Wilkinson’s (I thought unexceptionable) assertion that people value things other than — and often more highly than — happiness, DeLong objected, not just that Will had said something substantively wrong, but made some kind of semantic error, asserting a tautological falsehood (what we used to call a “falsism” in debate):
Better Brad DeLong Dissatisfied than a Pig Satisfied
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The candidate was quite unexceptionable, a well-known travel writer and TV personality.
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The thing was (not that we are imputing any strong blame in this case, we merely bring it as an illustration) it touched himself, his office, the inviolability of his jurisdiction, the unexceptionableness of his proceedings, and the wet blanket of the Chancellor's temper instantly took fire like tinder!
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
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In his stentorian voice, he told me a lot about Connolly, unexceptionable stuff, most of which I already knew.
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I said as much in my first comment on the matter, which I considered unexceptionable.
The Budget Debate, VI, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
