as in wrong
falling short of a standard this work is entirely unacceptable

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Recent Examples of unacceptable As for Tagovailoa, Sunday was an embarrassment, a performance entirely unacceptable for a $53 million quarterback. Barry Jackson updated October 19, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025 Doing nothing while someone steamrolls over you and the Constitution is unacceptable. U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025 Others are preaching patience, but acknowledge that the status quo is unacceptable. Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 The way things went in the past two games was unacceptable, as far as the Chargers and their coaches were concerned. Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unacceptable
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Adjective
  • Watters said letting visitors toss vegetables through the fence could send the wrong message, normalizing the idea of being close enough to feed a bear.
    Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • New York Giants star rookie running back Cam Skattebo was the talk of the NFL world on Sunday for all the wrong reasons after going down with what appears to be a season-ending leg or ankle injury in the team's Week 8 game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s another element of the current concern regarding due process that relates to the fate of poor Cinna.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • McDaniel’s debut album Lost Ones delves into his own story of growing up in a poor community in Kentucky, and dealing with mental health struggles, both personally and within his family — as well as McDaniel’s story of being saved during a past suicide attempt years ago.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Cut to Culhane doing lame bits with chopsticks as walrus teeth.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Add in coach Steve Kerr willingly working on a lame-duck contract, and the Warriors could be looking for a new path forward within the year of saying hello to Butler, meaning that smell around Chase Center is one of desperation.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • FarmVille wasn’t bad, but something was missing.
    Moisés Naím, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The asteroid impact triggered one of the planet's worst mass-extinction events, wiping out all dinosaurs but birds.
    DINO GRANDONI THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
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  • In the meantime, Jones has been carrying a run-deficient offense to the tune of 313 yards per game — the most in the NFL.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • At least 1,235 miles of the city’s sidewalks, or about 40%, are considered deficient.
    Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Inherently, a writer doing historical research is always victim to this horrible irony.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There are some horrible things said on stage by the mystery writer that Tony Carlin plays.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The tragedy in question is no secret — Chris and Jenny are killed together in a horrific car accident, which inspires all sorts of awful questions — and the fallout is mostly predictable.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But talk about some awful timing, my word.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • The heiress was involved in a terrible car accident in 1929, which left her with life-long medical issues.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • And keeper Caoimhin Kelleher, once Alisson’s backup with Liverpool, has improved after a terrible start.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025

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