A thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is indeed "exceptionable" to make consequential claims about women's health when "no reliable data" exist to support them. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Few young men are so free from exceptionable entanglements. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
None of his family are exceptionable — but himself, indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
There is a prooff also against Braidwood, but more exceptionable. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Trying to think of exceptionable clauses and settling on travelling. From Wordnik.com. ["As long as the husband is not travelling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night."] Reference
These are "modest and hardly exceptionable theses," says Mr. Quinton. From Wordnik.com. [Large Questions] Reference
I own, said he, that some parts of my conduct seem exceptionable, as you state it. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Hitherto I have not discovered any thing in his behaviour that is very exceptionable. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The least exceptionable pupil was the poor little Sylvie I have mentioned once before. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
His conjectural estimates of property, however, are exceptionable, as decidedly too high. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The right of equal suffrage among the States is another exceptionable part of the Confederation. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » They’re Making It Up:] Reference
But, I can recollect only one thing with which I have been struck as possibly exceptionable in it's tenor. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
The Major has Liberty written over his Manufactory House, and the Major inclosed the exceptionable Passages in the. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 19, 16 December 1772 - 18 December 1773] Reference
The air is believed to have originally been connected with some exceptionable words, beginning, "Saw ye my Maggie?". From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
That many of the German plays are highly exceptionable in their tendency is equally lamentable as it is undeniable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
A critic, though not very severe, will discover many faults of style, even where the matter may not be exceptionable. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Mr. Cook, as the least exceptionable expedient of accomplishing his design, ordered a musket to be fired over their heads. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference
You ask, Who would think you might not read to her the least exceptionable parts of a letter written in my own defence? —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I objected to them all and got them all expunged which I thought exceptionable, and furnished the committee with all the Law. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776] Reference
It seems to have been a premature or otherwise exceptionable exhibition, not unlike that commemorated by the late Mr. Bayley. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
I wish my manner were less exceptionable, as I do that the advice through the blessing of the Almighty might prove effectual. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
But, by proving that this theory is exceptionable, they by no means make it appear, that it ought, therefore, to be rejected. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
And Sarah's real love is crime fiction, perhaps a field of publishing in which the behavior she advises seems less exceptionable. From Wordnik.com. [Writing and Publishing] Reference
Lord Southbourne was an exceptionable viscount with weak brains and a large rent-roll whom Margaret had refused six months before. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
For in those sentences which are to be used like daggers for close-fighting, their very shortness makes our numbers less exceptionable. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
The letter of Asaad was produced, and though it was seen to contain nothing exceptionable, the patriarch thought proper to dismiss him without ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Katja Ray was completely contra this but eventually gives in to this exceptionable game. From Wordnik.com. [Penisbot.com Quality Porn Links] Reference
I pulled out one from 1910, a "Southern croon" with the typically minstrel-show exceptionable title. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
What eye cannot distinguish, at the first glance, between this and the exceptionable case of titles and pensions?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
War in any case is as exceptionable from the habits as it is revolting from the sentiments of the American people. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862] Reference
But women are not absent in London and New York, and they are conspicuous in the most exceptionable demonstrations of social anarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Backlog Studies] Reference
There was little in the Iraq speech that was exceptional with respect to language or policy, and not much that was exceptionable either. From Wordnik.com. [News & Politics] Reference
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