as in offensive
provoking or likely to provoke protest
as long as the language is not exceptionable, people can discuss any topic they want in the chat room
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exceptionable
Adjective
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Reese pulled down 17 rebounds, 11 on the offensive end, recording her ninth double-double of the season with 15 points.—
Christopher Harris,
CBS News,
15 June 2026 -
Getty Images The New York Yankees continue to battle for positioning atop the American League playoff picture, and with Aaron Judge sidelined, several veterans have been asked to shoulder a larger share of the offensive burden.—
Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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The American tourist used to be regarded as the most obnoxious creature in the world.—
Francesco Pacifico,
The Dial,
9 Dec. 2025
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In the best Scrooge tradition, Brad — a three-time Razzie Award nominee who at the story’s beginning is filming the seventh installment of his cheesy action movie series Killing Time — is an obnoxious blowhard who hits on his married co-star and refuses to do his own stunts.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The third strand of anti-vaccine advocacy, that compelling vaccine use is unacceptable, is a philosophical claim, not one of fact.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Allowing the status quo to remain is simply unacceptable.—
Catherine Blakespear,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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This is a fundamentally pleasant book for unpleasant times, the kind of novel in which a car breaks down and that turns out to be exactly what should have happened.—
Jacob Brogan,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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The jar’s odor wasn’t totally unpleasant, says Pederson.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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The show hinges on finding an ordinary person who, plunged into a group of people he’s never met before, doesn’t reject them as weird or objectionable but embraces them at some basic human level.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
1 June 2026
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Europe’s newfound openness to African industrialization is not because dependency suddenly became morally objectionable, but because Europe increasingly fears dependency itself.—
W. Gyude Moore,
semafor.com,
25 May 2026
Adjective
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Feeding bobcats can result in habituation and undesirable behaviors.—
Marvin Hurst,
CBS News,
10 Dec. 2025
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Songwriters expressing pangs of grief for what once was held court with others fretting about undesirable futures and still others dreaming up cooler tomorrows.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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In 2012, a powerful quake visited terrible damage on the city of Modena, Bottura’s home and host to his restaurant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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The letter writer’s cousin has cancer, and the chemo gives her terrible side effects.—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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This character is reprehensible.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
3 Dec. 2025
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Anna and Tom are just like you and I, neither more or less reprehensible, which is the point.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Dec. 2025
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