Synonyms for exceptionable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ik-sep-shuh-nuh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈsɛp ʃə nə bəl


Définition of exceptionable

Origin :
  • 1660s, from exception + -able. Related: Exceptionably.
  • adj objectionable
Example sentences :
  • The usual declension of the personal pronouns is exceptionable.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • Rask's derivation of the Anglo-Saxon swilc from swa-ylc, is exceptionable.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • How far is, whom do they say that I am, an exceptionable expression?
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • What are the exceptionable features of the law, what are the amendments you desire, you refrain from specifying.
  • Extract from : « A Letter to the Hon. Samuel Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill. » by Hancock
  • You ask, Who would think you might not read to her the least exceptionable parts of a letter written in my own defence?
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 7 » by Samuel Richardson
  • It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly.
  • Extract from : « The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • The sole possible response takes the exceptionable shape of loud peals of laughter.
  • Extract from : « Res Judicat » by Augustine Birrell
  • Exceptionable and restrictive laws were advocated to deprive the Jews there of rights they were enjoying throughout France.
  • Extract from : « Under Four Administrations » by Oscar S. Straus
  • From these materials those accounts of the Spanish affairs are drawn which may at first sight appear the most exceptionable.
  • Extract from : « A Voyage Round the World » by George Anson
  • However, this, though sufficiently provoking, was far from being the most exceptionable part of his conduct.
  • Extract from : « A Voyage Round the World » by George Anson

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