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    exceptionable


    1. There are (special) moments in our lives that many of us have experienced at one time or another that should be properly filed away for safe keeping and never revisited again lest we tarnish the exceptionable qualities that made those moments (in retrospect) special to begin with


    2. designate one amongst them as exceptionable


    3. But if such an hypothesis be indeed exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which, though not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling passion, yet were by no means incapable of swaying him


    4. Canning, in a highly exceptionable manner, through Federal presses, or presses more devoted to the interests of that country than any other? One universal burst of indignation accompanied the publication of that letter in this House


    5. But nevertheless the answer to an address, although that answer might finally contain the most exceptionable passages, was in fact the greatest opportunity which the opposition to the measures of the administration had of canvassing and sifting its measures; and, in my mind, whatever goes to take away this opportunity, goes so far to narrow down the rights of the minority or opposition, commonly so called, and in fact to enlarge the rights of the majority and the administration party so called; and I beg leave not to be understood as speaking of the state of parties at this time, but of that which has always existed


    6. This opportunity of discussion of the answer to an address, however exceptionable the address might be when it had received the last seasoning for the Presidential palate, did afford the best opportunity to take a review of the measures of the administration, to canvass them fully and fairly, without there being any question raised whether the gentlemen were in order or not; and I believe the time spent in canvassing the answer to a speech was at least as well spent as a great deal that we have expended since we discontinued the practice


    7. It has been said, that since the arrangement here has taken place, Great Britain has modified her Orders in Council in a most exceptionable manner


    8. [Here the exceptionable passages were read


    9. He had supposed this unnecessary, improper, and exceptionable in some respects


    10. For reasons, which it is unnecessary for me to assign, I will not press his opinion upon the attention of the Senate, but will introduce other and perhaps less exceptionable testimony

    11. If this mode should, in any respect, appear exceptionable, your Excellency will have the goodness to order a more particular explanation of the card


    12. However painful it may be to censure the conduct of our own Government, yet a sense of justice obliges me to say, that to every overture made by Great Britain to accommodate this unpleasant affair, our Administration attached some exceptionable condition which closed the door to an amicable adjustment


    13. The manner of the publication of the paper in question, was undoubtedly extremely exceptionable


    14. Supposing it was conceded to gentlemen that such a repeal of the Orders in Council, as took place on the 23d of June last, exceptionable as it is, being known before the war, would have prevented the war, does it follow that it ought to induce us to lay down our arms without the redress of any other injury? Does it follow, in all cases, that that which would have prevented the war in the first instance should terminate the war? By no means


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    Synonyms for "exceptionable"

    exceptionable objectionable

    "exceptionable" definitions

    liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to