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acceptable
adjective as in satisfactory, agreeable
Strongest matches
adequate, common, decent, fair, respectable, sufficient, tolerable
Weak matches
A-OK, admissible, all right, average, big, cooking with gas, cool, copacetic, delightful, hep, hip, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, right on, standard, swell, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome
Example Sentences
“You're terrorising people, children, for some money, and I don't think in any society that is in any way acceptable”.
Scotland's Women’s Health Minister Jenni Minto said excessively long waits were not acceptable and more money was going towards women's health.
Sociologist Anna Kuleshova argues that violence is becoming more acceptable in Russian society, especially because criminals can now escape punishment by going to war.
"There's no world in which you could have a robust environmental assessment that takes into account those downstream emissions and decide that those environmental impacts are acceptable," she told me.
This included people who believed cannabis use wouldn't interfere with their responsibilities, or it was considered socially acceptable, so they would continue their consumption patterns.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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