Crossword clues for unacceptable
unacceptable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unacceptable \Un`ac*cept"a*ble\, a. Not acceptable; not pleasing; not welcome; unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; offensive. -- Un`ac*cept"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`ac*cept"a*bly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from un- (1) "not" + acceptable. Related: Unacceptably.
Wiktionary
a. unsatisfactory; not acceptable
WordNet
adj. not adequate to give satisfaction; "the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable"
not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom" [ant: acceptable]
used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence" [syn: impossible, insufferable, unsufferable]
not conforming to standard usage; "the following use of `access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; `You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'" [syn: unaccepted]
Usage examples of "unacceptable".
To leave Renold while still laying claim to Bonheur was clearly unacceptable.
John is datable at best to the second quarter of the second century, while everything else comes from no earlier than the year 200, is simply unacceptable.
Horst the history between Merci and himself was completely unacceptable.
Freer had been discovered by prorector Mary Esther Thode more or less Xing poor Bernadette Longley under an Adidas blanket in the very back seat on the bus trip to the East Coast Clays in Providence in September, and it had been a nasty scene, because there were some basic Academy-license rules that it was just unacceptable to flout under the nose of staff.
Whatever rapport Bloor and I had developed with the Striker people was wearing very thin after three days of increasingly strange behavior and the antisocial attitude we apparently manifested at the big Striker cocktail party at the Punta Morena beach bar was clearly unacceptable.
Miss Phosphor McCabe had arrived at some unacceptable conclusions, the editor said.
More subtle and pernicious, in the print media in particular, the shift from prepublication to postpublication censorship had a chilling rather than a liberating effect on many publishers, editors, and writers, for it made them more vulnerable to financial disaster should occupation authorities find their published product unacceptable and demand that a newspaper, magazine, or book be recalled.
The souvenir trade in rope was unbecoming, unmilitary and generally unacceptable.
But as any adverse or critical comment on Washington, any ridicule at all, would have been considered unacceptable at this stage, Adams served as a convenient target for mockery and humor, and would again, just as he would be subject to the easiest, most damaging of smear words: monarchist.
But this result is unacceptable to Ananke, so the Venice timeline will be split just before I started with the golden candlesticks.
Such fantasies usually center on sexual behaviors that are deemed morally unacceptable or illicit.
But instead of looking for little errors in the beginning that were made by Hume and then dismissing them as the cause of the Humean conclusions that he found unacceptable, Kant thought it necessary to construct a vast piece of philosophical machinery designed to produce conclusions of an opposite tenor.
When Philip found himself face to face with this unacceptable series of choices, another occurred to him, and he called his overprivileged, never quite to be trusted brother in New York.
I had breakfast at six, luncheon would not be unacceptable at half-past ten, at about which time I lost sight of the scenery and confined my attention to a worsted workbag in which Nurse Bundle had a store of most acceptable buns.
The online noise to signal ratio was unacceptable to advertisers - so they stopped advertising.