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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unacceptable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acceptable/unacceptable
▪ This sort of behavior is completely unacceptable.
totally unacceptable/unnecessary/unsuitable etc
▪ Terrorism is totally unacceptable in a civilised world.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ It is a form of violence that the state does not seem to regard as unacceptable.
▪ Therefore any theory which denies that it is must be rejected as unacceptable.
▪ This is related to the fact that Eastern races regard the consumption of milk and cheese as unacceptable social behaviour.
▪ This does not necessarily imply acceptance of these images since they may be seen as unacceptable in their own right.
▪ Additionally, they feared the full development of a national health service, viewed by them as unacceptable socialism.
completely
▪ This is tragedy, completely unacceptable when comfortable Western nations are replete with food, and waste huge amounts of it.
▪ An organ should be removed if the alternative at this time is completely unacceptable.
politically
▪ It would be politically unacceptable to exempt Enterprise Zones from their restrictions.
▪ But the stage has probably been reached where only a politically unacceptable increase in those rates would stabilise the currency.
▪ In 1990 the unpopularity of the poll tax made even that levy politically unacceptable.
▪ A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests, and this was politically unacceptable.
▪ However, the view is widespread that the destruction of food is politically unacceptable.
quite
▪ The foregoing justification of induction is quite unacceptable, as David Hume conclusively demonstrated as long ago as the mid-eighteenth century.
▪ Many of these provisions would be quite unacceptable to a civil law country.
▪ The promotion of women ran into fierce resistance, which led to persistent and quite unacceptable forms of discrimination.
▪ Bishop Harris is quite unacceptable to the Vatican.
▪ Yet they headed governments with authoritarian features that were quite unacceptable.
socially
▪ Traditional consumption could soon become socially unacceptable.
▪ To some, they were crude, rude, and socially unacceptable.
▪ Driving under the influence of alcohol has come to be seen as socially unacceptable.
▪ The incidence of bad debt, he concluded, was socially unacceptable and financially disastrous.
▪ Any individual with a socially unacceptable appearance might be suspected of witchcraft.
▪ Society can not abandon extensive parts of the country - that would be socially unacceptable and economically untenable.
totally
▪ In doing so, he would inevitably have descended into the arena in a totally unacceptable way.
▪ On the other hand, if the parameter is representative of a developing trend, it may be totally unacceptable.
▪ It is amazing how dominant the educational establishment has been for so long, which is totally unacceptable.
▪ Business as usual must be totally unacceptable.
▪ Again, it is not surprising that most Christians find this theory totally unacceptable.
▪ This sort of behaviour is totally unacceptable.
▪ The rival proposals for Stratford are totally unacceptable.
▪ He told parliament there had been a totally unacceptable series of events.
wholly
▪ Such a philosophy is wholly unacceptable and shows how stupid the tax was.
▪ This is an unscientific procedure that is widely practiced but must be condemned as wholly unacceptable.
▪ By the by, those conditions are wholly unacceptable to our partners and would destroy the whole purpose and form of a central bank.
▪ Through their wholly unacceptable behaviour, keoi mark themselves apart from humans, while reminding them of the possibility of such behaviour.
■ NOUN
behaviour
▪ Four boys have been suspended due to unacceptable behaviour.
▪ I decided to follow him to his bedroom to confront him with this unacceptable behaviour.
▪ One reason for this reluctance to take action against the process of monopolization is the difficulty of distinguishing acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.
▪ As reported last month four boys have been suspended for unacceptable behaviour and have expressed no regret for their actions.
▪ In chapter 4 I suggested that you might try ignoring certain categories of unacceptable behaviour.
▪ However, within such a community, Durkheim argues that the division between what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour would still exist.
▪ While accepting that smacking is universal, he believes there are better methods of teaching children what is acceptable or unacceptable behaviour.
face
▪ There was also a view that there was an unacceptable face of capitalism.
▪ The rat is the unacceptable face of the environment; so is listeria and clostridium botulinum.
level
▪ Some environmentalists argue, however, that it will produce unacceptable levels of pollution, and that it is also economically inappropriate.
▪ On the upper levels of the church lichen deposits have reached unacceptable levels.
▪ I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman has said about the unacceptable level of unemployment in Northern Ireland.
▪ Pay increases alone could not achieve this without inflating the country's wage bill to an unacceptable level.
▪ Instead, it should be seen as a successful attempt to control speeds which would reach unacceptable levels if left unchecked.
▪ John Wright, counsel for Timex Electronics, told the judge the gatherings had produced disorder of an unacceptable level.
▪ I don't think teachers are so unprofessional that they are going to communicate unacceptable levels of stress on their children.
▪ The factories can be reported to the pollution inspectorate if unacceptable levels of pollution are found.
risk
▪ Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl's tight implementation timetable.
▪ It will expose our economy to unacceptable risks and should not be adopted.
▪ Companies that take unacceptable risk plainly also disappear.
▪ At issue is whether the hardware can be integrated without creating unacceptable risk of another failure.
▪ For these and other reasons, a balanced-budget amendment poses unacceptable risks.
▪ Trading Bonds for a pitcher is an unacceptable risk because pitchers break down so frequently.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unacceptable behavior
▪ McCartney's response is totally unacceptable.
▪ Most women said they thought the ruling was unfair and unacceptable.
▪ We regard the idea of being able to choose the sex of your baby as wholly unacceptable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any great degree of such aortic valve incompetence will place an unacceptable work-load on the heart, with resulting heart failure.
▪ If so, that is unacceptable.
▪ In the short run, it made many black artists unacceptable on urban stations.
▪ It simply states that present proposals are unacceptable because they do not retain a fair and equitable trading system.
▪ It was the manner in which such a sacred subject was interpreted which was unacceptable.
▪ The foregoing justification of induction is quite unacceptable, as David Hume conclusively demonstrated as long ago as the mid-eighteenth century.
▪ Thus such ceremonials do not violate the First Amendment unless the language used in them is unacceptable.
▪ To some, they were crude, rude, and socially unacceptable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unacceptable

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
unacceptable

late 15c., from un- (1) "not" + acceptable. Related: Unacceptably.

Wiktionary
unacceptable

a. unsatisfactory; not acceptable

WordNet
unacceptable
  1. adj. not adequate to give satisfaction; "the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable"

  2. not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom" [ant: acceptable]

  3. used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence" [syn: impossible, insufferable, unsufferable]

  4. 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.