unacceptableadj.
/ˌʌnəkˈsɛptəbl/, U.S. /ˌənəkˈsɛptəb(ə)l/ Not acceptable. Catchphrase the unacceptable face of ——: see quot. 19731.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [adjective] > causing discontent or unsatisfactory
unacceptable1483
discontentive1578
inacceptable1578
discontenting1579
discontentful1604
dissatisfactoryc1610
undigestable1612
ungratifying1695
dissatisfying1709
unsatisfactory1843
crook1898
zilch1958
1483 Cath. Angl. 2/2 Vn Acceptabylle, ingratus,..non acceptabilis.
1540 T. Wyatt Let. xx, in K. Muir Life & Lett. (1963) 138 I can not elles se what shold move this rigour..onles I peraventure be vnaceptable vnto hym.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. iv. 104 To the author and God of our nature, how shall any operation proceeding in naturall sort be in that respect vnacceptable?
1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation i. 27 A vaine worship: and therefore vnacceptable altogether to the Lord.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 83 It will not be unacceptable to the Reader to see some of it here corrected.
1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes v. 241 The new Laws of King Henry being very unacceptable to the English.
1753 Warburton in Harris Hardwicke (1847) II. 481 No favours from such a hand could be unacceptable.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 551 He still called himself a Whig, and was not unacceptable to many of the Whigs.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. i. 3 An honourable son-in-law could not be unacceptable to him.
1973 E. Heath in Hansard Commons 15 May 1243 It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.
1973 Times 5 June 1/6 He called the actions of the News of the World ‘the unacceptable face of journalism’.
1975 A. Beevor Violent Brink vii. 210 Let us look at the unacceptable face of Communism.
1982 Guardian 8 Jan. 18/1 The unacceptable face of modern men's tennis was seen again during the Barratt world doubles championship..yesterday when Hank Pfister..swore at the match umpire and then accused him of cheating.
Derivatives
unacceptableness n.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun] > unsatisfactory quality or thing
bad satisfaction1607
unacceptableness1648
dissatisfactoriness1677
dissatisfaction1702
unacceptability1852
inacceptability1857
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck On-aengenaemheydt, un-acceptablenesse.
1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania iii. 118 To correct the unacceptablenesse of his Story.
1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 2 I hope this Alteration does not arise from any natural Antipathy I have to Sense, but from the unacceptableness of the subject I am upon.
1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxi. 280 A tone timid with an apprehension of some possible unacceptableness.
unacceptably adv.
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1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck On-aengenaemlick, vn-acceptably.
1828– in various Dicts.
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