impeccable

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The service is impeccable, the welcome effusive, and like everyone else who eats at elBulli, we are greeted with a tour of the kitchen, Adriá's realm, where work goes on unhindered.

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  1. adjective Having no flaws; perfect. See Synonyms at perfect.
  2. adjective Incapable of sin or wrongdoing.

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  • His records were impeccable, and he has increased the productivity enormously. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • His black coat was impeccable, his gray tie knotted in sleek folds. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • Her spoken English was impeccable, and the school provided her with excellent references. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • Wellman's research was always impeccable, his imagination a delight, his plots intriguing. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • There is nothing to choose between the workmanship of the two plates; both are absolutely impeccable, and outside the work of Duerer himself, unrivalled. —  Albert Durer
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  1. Latin impeccābilis : in-, not; see in-1 + peccāre, to sin; see ped- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French impeccable = Spanish impecable = Portuguese impeccavel = Italian impeccabile, from Late Latin impeccabilis, inpeccabilis, not liable to sin, from Latin in- privative + peccabilis, liable to sin: see peccable.
 

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