| 单词 | exceptionable |
| 释义 | exceptionable (once / 5221 pages) adj If something is exceptionable, someone is bound to find something wrong with it. Be careful not to confuse exceptionable with exceptional, which means something remarkable and particularly unusual, or with unexceptionable, which means the exact opposite of exceptionable — something quite ordinary and hardly to be noticed. "Puppies are cute" is about as unexceptionable a sentence as you are likely to find. Unless you're a puppy hater, of course. WORD FAMILYexceptionable: exceptionably, unexceptionable+/except: excepted, excepting, exception, excepts/exception: exceptionable, exceptional, exceptions/exceptional: exceptionally, unexceptional/unexceptionable: unexceptionably/unexceptional: unexceptionally USAGE EXAMPLESThere should be room in today’s vast television landscape for a series that points out the exceptionable. New York Times(Nov 11, 2012) The terms used seems to be justly exceptionable. Various, The Diplomatic Correspondence of th...(2012) Exceptionable and restrictive laws were advocated to deprive the Jews there of rights they were enjoying throughout France. Straus, Oscar S., Under Four Administrations—From Cle...(2012) adj liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing Syn objectionable unacceptable not acceptable; not welcome |
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