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Unacceptable

adjective

Not adequate to give satisfaction.

Not acceptable; not welcome. "An unacceptable violation of personal freedom" Antonym: acceptable.

Used of persons or their behavior. Synonyms: impossible, insufferable, unsufferable. "Insufferable insolence"

Not conforming to standard usage. Synonym: unaccepted.

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"Unacceptable" Quotes from Famous Books

... if it were only five." Among the people too the instrument excited the greatest astonishment and interest, so that he was nearly mobbed. The Senate hinted to him that a present of the instrument would not be unacceptable, so Galileo took the hint and ...

— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge

... eyes, and see some small ray of truth, and there cometh on us repentance of our misdeeds. But a new cloud of despair would overshadow it; despair at the multitude of mine offences, because I am now abominable and unacceptable to Christ, being a rebel and a foeman unto him. What, then, sayest thou, dearest son, hereto? Make known to me thine answer, and teach me that am thy father what I should do, and lead me to the knowledge ...

— Barlaam and Ioasaph • St. John of Damascus

... according to Bernstorff, the President volunteered to issue a call for an immediate peace conference if only the Germans would state their terms. But they did not state them until the 29th, when a note for the President's private information detailed a program which was as obviously unacceptable to the allied powers as the Allies' terms were to the Germans. In any case this program had only an academic interest, for along with it came a formal notice that unrestricted submarine war would begin on ...

— Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements • Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan

... Ruthven, "my being unacceptable to your presence will not add to your obduracy of resolution. It may become you to remember that the death of the minion, Rizzio, cost the house of Ruthven its head and leader. My father, more worthy than a whole province of such vile sycophants, ...

— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott

... knowledge of him who was founder of the Jesuits. I may add likewise, that many considerable persons, and particularly of the court, have testified so great a desire to see a complete history of St Xavier in our language, that I thought my labour would not be unacceptable to them; and that in satisfying my own private devotion, I might at the same time content the curiosity ...

— The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18) - The Life of St. Francis Xavier • John Dryden

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