unexceptionable

• “During the latter part of the term his conduct had not been by any means "unexceptionable"; but it was part of Gabrielle's queer policy of secrecy to hide any lapse on Arthur's part from her husband.”

  The Tragic Bride

• “When you recall what most civilized climates are like, "unexceptionable," that cold and formal word, may well take your breath away.”

  The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “Timothy (though not having the name) exercised the power at Ephesus then, which bishops in the modern sense more recently exercised. blameless -- "unexceptionable"; giving no just handle for blame. husband of one wife -- confuting the celibacy of Rome's priesthood.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “… While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

• “For its part, instead of an honest effort to give the country an independent anticorruption czar—an unexceptionable goal in itself, if only a partial solution to the problem—the government has raised extraneous issues such as caste and religious quotas in the proposed new body.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Delhi's Year of Drama and Stasis

• “Yet later he admitted quantum mechanics doesn't contain any logical contradictions and is logically unexceptionable.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Lanza, M.D.: Could This Theory Provide A Glimpse Of Our Ultimate Destiny?

• “I said as much in my first comment on the matter, which I considered unexceptionable.”

  The Budget Debate, VI, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “It is an observation, unexceptionable today, that fiscal policy affects the economy.”

  The Civility Plea, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “But as a RULE OF THUMB, the dictum is perfectly unexceptionable and modestly useful.”

  Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar

• “This is unexceptionable in itself, but as I pointed out in a recent post, very often this otherwise harmless truism is used to assert further that such experiences and knowledge themselves constitute a "theory," that all reading of works of literature is preceded by a preexisting theory of literature and of reading itself.”

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