UNACCEPTABLE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for UNACCEPTABLE, such as:

1. Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades.
2. I found her attitude totally unacceptable.
3. It would have been unacceptable and annoying.
4. The cost of these proposed changes makes them unacceptable.
5. That pronunciation is unacceptable in the south of Britain.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNACCEPTABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unacceptable
 a.  not conforming to standard usage
 a.  not adequate to give satisfaction
Classic Sentence:
1  Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
2  It would have been unacceptable and annoying.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
3  But before he had finished he felt that his jest was unacceptable and had not come off.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
4  Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence:
1  I found her attitude totally unacceptable.
2  The cost of these proposed changes makes them unacceptable.
3  The unions have described the latest pay offer as unacceptable.
4  The press has been blamed for intruding into people's personal lives in an unacceptable way.
5  That this is a positive stereotype makes it no less a stereotype, and therefore unacceptable.
6  That pronunciation is unacceptable in the south of Britain.
7  That, really, at this juncture is our best hope of avoiding two unacceptable alternatives, a nuclear powered Iran or using military force against them.
8  Considering them to just be lazy and incompetent is an unacceptable excuse.
9  He clashed frequently with insiders who regarded his management style and his policies as unacceptable, in particular, his insistence that bank help for poor nations be tied in future to their willingness to root out corruption.
10  Below I will investigate the reasons why anecdotal evidence is unreliable and unacceptable evidence of scientific claims.
11  Vladimir Putin states that a unique-polar world with one sovereign is unacceptable.
12  Former Tory defence secretary Liam Fox, a Eurosceptic, said allowing EU citizens to vote in the referendum "would have been an unacceptable dilution of the voice of the British people".