The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exceptionable \Ex*cep"tion*a*ble\ ([e^]k*s[e^]p"sh[u^]n*[.a]*b'l), a. Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n.
This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable
in the whole poem.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s (implied in exceptionableness), from exception (in the take exception to sense) + -able. Related: Exceptionably. Compare objectionable.
Wiktionary
a. Liable to cause disapproval, objection or debate
WordNet
adj. liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to; "a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing"; "found the politician's views objectionable" [syn: objectionable]
Usage examples of "exceptionable".
I was inspired by nothing more exceptionable than an earnest wish to prevent you from tumbling into further mischief while I was away.
Avery was as impeccably attired as if engaged in pursuits no more exceptionable than a stroll down St.
The condition of being unseen is the same condition which occurs while the body is living, so that intrinsically there is nothing exceptionable, or supernatural, in the life of the soul after death.
But if such an hypothesis be indeed exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which, though not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling passion, yet were by no means incapable of swaying him.
I am told all the pamphlets are exceptionable in point of temper, and this one in particular, which not only ascribes the most unworthy motives to its antagonist, but contains some very unjustifiable and gratuitous attacks upon other sects unconnected with the dispute.
War in any case is as exceptionable from the habits as it is revolting from the sentiments of the American people.
They bring together some of his most exceptionable reasonings, but the principles themselves were all in his former works.