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exceptionable

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ex·cep·tion·a·ble  (k-spsh-n-bl)
adj.
Open or liable to objection or debate; objectionable or debatable.

ex·ception·a·bili·ty n.
ex·ception·a·bly adv.
Usage Note: Exceptionable and exceptional are not interchangeable. Only exceptionable means "objectionable" or "debatable"; exceptional means "uncommon" or "extraordinary."

exceptionable [ɪkˈsɛpʃənəbəl]
adj
open to or subject to objection; objectionable
exceptionableness  n
exceptionably  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.exceptionable - liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to; "a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing"; "found the politician's views objectionable"
unacceptable - not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom"
Translations
exceptionable [ɪkˈsepʃənəbl] ADJ [conduct] → censurable, objetable; [proposal] → impugnable, refutable
exceptionable
adj (form)
(= arguable)anfechtbar, bestreitbar
(= objectionable)anstößig


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But if such an hypothesis be indeed exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which, though not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling passion, yet were by no means incapable of swaying him.
He certainly was to blame occasionally for the asperity of his manners, and the arbitrary nature of his measures, yet much that is exceptionable in this part of his conduct may be traced to rigid notions of duty acquired in that tyrannical school, a ship of war, and to the construction given by his companions to the orders of Mr.
This exceptionable principle may, as truly as emphatically, be styled the parent of anarchy: It has been seen that delinquencies in the members of the Union are its natural and necessary offspring; and that whenever they happen, the only constitutional remedy is force, and the immediate effect of the use of it, civil war.
 
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