EXCEPTIONABLE in a Sentence

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They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXCEPTIONABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exceptionable
 a.  open or liable to objection or debate; liable to cause disapproval
Classic Sentence:
1  But if such an hypothesis be indeed exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which, though not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling passion, yet were by no means incapable of swaying him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
2  We can't have perfection; and if I keep him, I must sustain his administration as a whole, even if there are, now and then, things that are exceptionable.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  Do you find the punk rock band Green Day a highly exceptionable, thoroughly distasteful group, or do you think they are exceptionally talented performers?.