exceptionable

Example Sentences

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Brooks will be available in relief and has shown exceptionable athleticism.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2023

There should be room in today’s vast television landscape for a series that points out the exceptionable.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2012

There was little in the Iraq speech that was exceptional with respect to language or policy, and not much that was exceptionable either.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2010

With the exception of the always exceptionable coal miners, there had not been a major new strike in six months.*

From Time Magazine Archive

But we are become so particular about the etymological force of newly coined words, that we can never please ourselves, but rather choose to do without than to tolerate anything exceptionable.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various