UNACCEPTABILITY Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

unacceptability

noun

as in undesirability

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Noun

The undesirability of the undead state is inherent in the term itself.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
There are hyper-local gags about the Williamsburg bar Union Pool and the undesirability of living in the Financial District, and a creature known as Rat Pizza — like Pizza Rat in reverse.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026

Definition of undesirability

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This week, at the men’s Summer 2027 Saint Laurent show in Paris, creative director Anthony Vaccarello showed a collection of quiet perversity disrupted by a starling pair of foot-baring shoes.

— Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
From top to bottom, this administration embodies the perversity, ignorance and belligerence of its leader.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of perversity

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Max Cady should be an unsettling interruption, a man who undermines our ideas of right and wrong through his nonchalance about his own wickedness; here, the most unsettling thing about him are those teal contact lenses.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
On the day of Cal and John's Sabbath fight over Cal's hair, Reverend Rose delivers a sermon that focuses on wickedness and fear.

— Paula Cooper, CBS News, 5 May 2026

Definition of wickedness

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The leprous, lascivious body was a perversion that Western proselytizing could fix.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
More broadly, this same chain of logic turns the Voting Rights Act into a zombie law, a perversion of its intended purpose that now mostly protects white Americans from any attempts to break their disproportionate control of voting machinery.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026

Definition of perversion

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