adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acceptable/unacceptable
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This sort of behavior is completely unacceptable.
totally unacceptable/unnecessary/unsuitable etc
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Terrorism is totally unacceptable in a civilised world.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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It is a form of violence that the state does not seem to regard as unacceptable .
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Therefore any theory which denies that it is must be rejected as unacceptable .
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This is related to the fact that Eastern races regard the consumption of milk and cheese as unacceptable social behaviour.
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This does not necessarily imply acceptance of these images since they may be seen as unacceptable in their own right.
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Additionally, they feared the full development of a national health service, viewed by them as unacceptable socialism.
completely
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This is tragedy, completely unacceptable when comfortable Western nations are replete with food, and waste huge amounts of it.
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An organ should be removed if the alternative at this time is completely unacceptable .
politically
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It would be politically unacceptable to exempt Enterprise Zones from their restrictions.
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But the stage has probably been reached where only a politically unacceptable increase in those rates would stabilise the currency.
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In 1990 the unpopularity of the poll tax made even that levy politically unacceptable .
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A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests, and this was politically unacceptable .
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However, the view is widespread that the destruction of food is politically unacceptable .
quite
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The foregoing justification of induction is quite unacceptable , as David Hume conclusively demonstrated as long ago as the mid-eighteenth century.
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Many of these provisions would be quite unacceptable to a civil law country.
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The promotion of women ran into fierce resistance, which led to persistent and quite unacceptable forms of discrimination.
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Bishop Harris is quite unacceptable to the Vatican.
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Yet they headed governments with authoritarian features that were quite unacceptable .
socially
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Traditional consumption could soon become socially unacceptable .
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To some, they were crude, rude, and socially unacceptable .
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Driving under the influence of alcohol has come to be seen as socially unacceptable .
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The incidence of bad debt, he concluded, was socially unacceptable and financially disastrous.
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Any individual with a socially unacceptable appearance might be suspected of witchcraft.
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Society can not abandon extensive parts of the country - that would be socially unacceptable and economically untenable.
totally
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In doing so, he would inevitably have descended into the arena in a totally unacceptable way.
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On the other hand, if the parameter is representative of a developing trend, it may be totally unacceptable .
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It is amazing how dominant the educational establishment has been for so long, which is totally unacceptable .
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Business as usual must be totally unacceptable .
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Again, it is not surprising that most Christians find this theory totally unacceptable .
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This sort of behaviour is totally unacceptable .
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The rival proposals for Stratford are totally unacceptable .
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He told parliament there had been a totally unacceptable series of events.
wholly
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Such a philosophy is wholly unacceptable and shows how stupid the tax was.
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This is an unscientific procedure that is widely practiced but must be condemned as wholly unacceptable .
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By the by, those conditions are wholly unacceptable to our partners and would destroy the whole purpose and form of a central bank.
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Through their wholly unacceptable behaviour, keoi mark themselves apart from humans, while reminding them of the possibility of such behaviour.
■ NOUN
behaviour
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Four boys have been suspended due to unacceptable behaviour .
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I decided to follow him to his bedroom to confront him with this unacceptable behaviour .
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One reason for this reluctance to take action against the process of monopolization is the difficulty of distinguishing acceptable and unacceptable behaviour .
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As reported last month four boys have been suspended for unacceptable behaviour and have expressed no regret for their actions.
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In chapter 4 I suggested that you might try ignoring certain categories of unacceptable behaviour .
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However, within such a community, Durkheim argues that the division between what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour would still exist.
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While accepting that smacking is universal, he believes there are better methods of teaching children what is acceptable or unacceptable behaviour .
face
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There was also a view that there was an unacceptable face of capitalism.
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The rat is the unacceptable face of the environment; so is listeria and clostridium botulinum.
level
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Some environmentalists argue, however, that it will produce unacceptable levels of pollution, and that it is also economically inappropriate.
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On the upper levels of the church lichen deposits have reached unacceptable levels.
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I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman has said about the unacceptable level of unemployment in Northern Ireland.
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Pay increases alone could not achieve this without inflating the country's wage bill to an unacceptable level .
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Instead, it should be seen as a successful attempt to control speeds which would reach unacceptable levels if left unchecked.
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John Wright, counsel for Timex Electronics, told the judge the gatherings had produced disorder of an unacceptable level .
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I don't think teachers are so unprofessional that they are going to communicate unacceptable levels of stress on their children.
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The factories can be reported to the pollution inspectorate if unacceptable levels of pollution are found.
risk
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Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl's tight implementation timetable.
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It will expose our economy to unacceptable risks and should not be adopted.
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Companies that take unacceptable risk plainly also disappear.
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At issue is whether the hardware can be integrated without creating unacceptable risk of another failure.
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For these and other reasons, a balanced-budget amendment poses unacceptable risks .
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Trading Bonds for a pitcher is an unacceptable risk because pitchers break down so frequently.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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unacceptable behavior
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McCartney's response is totally unacceptable .
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Most women said they thought the ruling was unfair and unacceptable .
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We regard the idea of being able to choose the sex of your baby as wholly unacceptable .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any great degree of such aortic valve incompetence will place an unacceptable work-load on the heart, with resulting heart failure.
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If so, that is unacceptable .
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In the short run, it made many black artists unacceptable on urban stations.
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It simply states that present proposals are unacceptable because they do not retain a fair and equitable trading system.
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It was the manner in which such a sacred subject was interpreted which was unacceptable .
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The foregoing justification of induction is quite unacceptable , as David Hume conclusively demonstrated as long ago as the mid-eighteenth century.
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Thus such ceremonials do not violate the First Amendment unless the language used in them is unacceptable .
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To some, they were crude, rude, and socially unacceptable .