exceptionableadj.
/ɛkˈsɛpʃənəb(ə)l/ 1. † b. of persons. Obsolete.
a. That may be excepted against; open to objection. Now chiefly with negative words.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > [adjective]
bysenc1375
offensivea1548
nasty1548
beastly1584
whelpish1586
heathenish1592
viperous1593
vermin1602
verminousc1616
unchristian1630
verminian1640
rancida1646
verminly1653
spider-like1655
exceptionable1691
skunky1842
slaggy1943
schmucky1952
grotty1964
grody1965
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [adjective] > worthy of disapproval > not worthy of approval
hard-favoured1595
implausible1602
unapprovable1647
objectionable1653
unexemplar1685
exceptionable1691
unexemplary1699
ceptionable1702
objectable1747
beastly1763
objectional1799
unqualifiable1823
funky1946
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 28 As the Theory..is built wholly upon a false supposition,..So is it all along precarious and exceptionable.
1718 J. Addison Spectator (ed. 6) IV. 107 This Passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable [1712 silliest] in the whole Poem.
1784 J. L. De Lolme Constit. Eng. i. xii. 123 (note) The depositions of those witnesses who are adjudged upon trial to be exceptionable, are set aside.
1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 35 The Female Factory at Paramatta has..been under most exceptionable management; insomuch as to have proved an absolute nuisance.
1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board III. x. 157 The Greek priest led the way..chanting the funeral dirge, in which there was nothing exceptionable.
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1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxv. 175 Greville is surely (exceptionable as he is) a better man.
1813 Examiner 8 Feb. 88/2 The ladies in that piece, though very exceptionable, are of a stamp far above his Angelica.
2. Occasionally misused for exceptional adj.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > special, extraordinary, or unusual
sunderlepeOE
specialc1325
strangec1330
undeemousa1400
outragec1400
singularc1400
stravagant1565
unusual1582
extraordinarya1586
remarkable1593
exordinary1601
peculiar1608
stupendous1640
eccentricala1652
particular1665
out-of-the-way1675
uncommon1705
awfy1724
exceptionable1801
tremendous1831
exceptional1846
exceptive1849
exceptionary1850
spesh1874
heart-stopping1891
off-brand1929
wild1955
cracker1964
1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 114 To add an exceptionable article to a law.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 381 A time..in which even fishes..were so rare and exceptionable, that they occupied a scarce appreciable place in Nature.
1874 J. L. Motley John of Barneveld ii. xx. 356 The fact that he had not been stretched upon the rack during his trial was complacently mentioned a proof of exceptionable indulgence.
Derivatives
exˈceptionableness n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > quality of not being approvable
exceptionableness1664
objectionableness1820
objectionability1865
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 336 The..exceptionableness of his division of the duration of the world into seven Ages.
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 179 I suspect that the exceptionableness of the subject is that which constitutes the chief merit of the play.
exˈceptionably adv.
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