exceptionable

Example Sentences

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Brooks will be available in relief and has shown exceptionable athleticism.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2023

There should be room in today’s vast television landscape for a series that points out the exceptionable.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2012

There was little in the Iraq speech that was exceptional with respect to language or policy, and not much that was exceptionable either.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2010

But the most ill-starred horse of any sex this year was a filly, a most exceptionable filly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Exceptional which means "unusual," "forming an exception" should not be confused with exceptionable which means "open to objection."

From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)