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The Latin substitution of the combination th for the simple single θ, was exceptionable.
A HANDBOOK OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGEROBERT GORDON LATHAM
Even the least exceptionable historic abridgments require the corrections of a patient parent.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION, VOLUME IMARIA EDGEWORTH
Yet the example here given is by no means the most exceptionable for the number of authorities cited.
NOAH WEBSTERHORACE E. SCUDDER
If there were one exceptionable page in a book, otherwise valuable, instead of suppressing the page, she suppressed the book.
COELEBS IN SEARCH OF A WIFEHANNAH MORE
A critic, though not very ſevere, will diſcover many faults of ſtyle, even where the matter may not be exceptionable.
A RESIDENCE IN FRANCE DURING THE YEARS 1792, 1793, 1794 AND 1795, COMPLETEAN ENGLISH LADY
But it really appears to me that the means which this act employs are at least as exceptionable as the end.
THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. II. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKE
The morals of both brothers were as exceptionable in private as in public life.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOL. 60, NO. 373, NOVEMBER 1846VARIOUS
Rask's derivation of the Anglo-Saxon swilc from swa-ylc, is exceptionable.
A HANDBOOK OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGEROBERT GORDON LATHAM
It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly.
THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF LORD MACAULAY, VOL. 4 (OF 4)THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
You ask, Who would think you might not read to her the least exceptionable parts of a letter written in my own defence?
CLARISSA, VOLUME 7SAMUEL RICHARDSON

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