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UNEXCEPTIONABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unexceptionable mean?
• UNEXCEPTIONABLE (adjective)
The adjective UNEXCEPTIONABLE has 1 sense:
1. completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach
Familiarity information: UNEXCEPTIONABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach
Synonyms:
unexceptionable; unimpeachable
Context example:
a judge's ethics should be unexceptionable
Similar:
acceptable (worthy of acceptance or satisfactory)
Context examples
After all our debatings and difficulties, we find there is nothing that will suit us altogether so well, nothing so unexceptionable, as Lovers' Vows.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I have reason to think, he replied, that Harriet Smith will soon have an offer of marriage, and from a most unexceptionable quarter:—Robert Martin is the man.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sir Walter spurned the idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour, that he would let it at all.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
And you must be aware, Fanny, that it is every young woman's duty to accept such a very unexceptionable offer as this.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She could not respect his eye, but his love and his complaisance were unexceptionable.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Had his choice been less unexceptionable, I should have condemned his persevering.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And I am quite serious too, I assure you, replied Mrs. Elton gaily, in resolving to be always on the watch, and employing my friends to watch also, that nothing really unexceptionable may pass us.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We may be trusted, I think, in chusing some play most perfectly unexceptionable; and I can conceive no greater harm or danger to any of us in conversing in the elegant written language of some respectable author than in chattering in words of our own.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The Frank Churchill so long talked of, so high in interest, was actually before her—he was presented to her, and she did not think too much had been said in his praise; he was a very good looking young man; height, air, address, all were unexceptionable, and his countenance had a great deal of the spirit and liveliness of his father's; he looked quick and sensible.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She had such a regard for Mr. Knightley, as to think he deserved even her dearest Emma; and it was in every respect so proper, suitable, and unexceptionable a connexion, and in one respect, one point of the highest importance, so peculiarly eligible, so singularly fortunate, that now it seemed as if Emma could not safely have attached herself to any other creature, and that she had herself been the stupidest of beings in not having thought of it, and wished it long ago.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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