There is a clear distinction in meaning between exceptionable (‘open to objection’) and exceptional (‘out of the ordinary; very good’). However, this distinction has become blurred in the negative forms unexceptionable and unexceptional. Strictly speaking, unexceptionable means ‘not open to objection’, as in this view is unexceptionable in itself, while unexceptional means ‘not out of the ordinary; usual’, as in the hotel was adequate but unexceptional. But, although the distinction may be clear in these two examples, the meaning of unexceptionable is often indeterminate between ‘not open to objection’ and ‘ordinary’, as in the food was bland and unexceptionable or the candidates were pretty unexceptionable.