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- adverb Not within the limits of what is generally considered to be
acceptable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to an unacceptable degree
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Examples
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The Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) spoke out on Monday against what it termed the unacceptably high incidence of police killings and the negligible number of arrests in such cases.
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Organisations 'Coalition to highlight what it describes as unacceptably high levels of violence against women and children.
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Gee, I sure wish he would define "a long time," when he says something like "the unemployment rate to remain unacceptably high for a long time". obamarroids
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New York (CNNMoney. com) – Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said he expects the unemployment rate to remain "unacceptably high" for a long time, even as the economy recovers and job growth slowly resumes.
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Currently it was owed about R15 billion, an amount it described as unacceptably high.
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July 29 Bloomberg -- The U.S. is approaching the moment it may have to decide which bills to pay, a prospect Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has called "unacceptably risky and unfair" to Americans.
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The Republicans already have relented on one piece of legislation Democrats called unacceptably anti-union and anti-worker: the so-called "right to work" bill.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The Republicans already have relented on one piece of legislation Democrats called unacceptably anti-union and anti-worker: the so-called "right to work" bill.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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July 29 Bloomberg -- The U.S. is approaching the moment it may have to decide which bills to pay, a prospect Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has called "unacceptably risky and unfair" to Americans.
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Even longtime supporters of the court, established in The Hague to deal with large-scale atrocities, say they are frustrated by what many call the unacceptably slow pace and numerous missteps that have dragged out the trial, in which
NYT > Home Page By MARLISE SIMONS 2010
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