Definitions
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- noun The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.
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- noun The property of being
unacceptable .
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- noun unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards
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Examples
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OWS challenges the deep immorality and total unacceptability of the economic and political arrangements that generate and secure this inequality.
Michael Zweig: OWS Has Lessons to Learn From Past Movements Michael Zweig 2011
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This is also the same Mortgage Bankers Association whose CEO lectured underwater homeowners many of them victims of bank fraud on the immorality and social unacceptability of walking away from their mortgages - shortly before the MBA walked away from its highly financed, multi-million dollar Washington, DC headquarters.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Justice by the Numbers: Chasing Immigrants While Bank Criminals Go Free RJ 2011
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From Abraham to Moses and Jesus to Muhammad, realizing the unacceptability of the status quo, not simply accepting it as God's will, was the spark which lit the fuse of a new spiritual explosion.
Brad Hirschfield: Anger At God Is Good for Atheists And Believers Alike Brad Hirschfield 2011
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OWS challenges the deep immorality and total unacceptability of the economic and political arrangements that generate and secure this inequality.
Michael Zweig: OWS Has Lessons to Learn From Past Movements Michael Zweig 2011
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This is also the same Mortgage Bankers Association whose CEO lectured underwater homeowners many of them victims of bank fraud on the immorality and social unacceptability of walking away from their mortgages - shortly before the MBA walked away from its highly financed, multi-million dollar Washington, DC headquarters.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Justice by the Numbers: Chasing Immigrants While Bank Criminals Go Free RJ 2011
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When given the Gaza strip, those who seized control, instead of seeking out foreign investment to assist with infrastructure projects and the betterment of their economy, have been single-mindedly focused on the unacceptability of living next to a country governed by non-Muslims.
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From Abraham to Moses and Jesus to Muhammad, realizing the unacceptability of the status quo, not simply accepting it as God's will, was the spark which lit the fuse of a new spiritual explosion.
Brad Hirschfield: Anger At God Is Good for Atheists And Believers Alike Brad Hirschfield 2011
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The underlying problem of the unacceptability of this solution to Palestinian public opinion exists no matter who you put in charge.
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So, it's interesting that Warhol has now become acceptable to teach to kids, which I suppose means they've built up enough socially-acceptable history or pseudo-history to paper over any hint of dangerous unacceptability?
Pop melted_snowball 2009
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I think Avatar might be a truly important film, too, in terms of environmental awareness, and capitalist colonialism, and the general unacceptability of invading places to steal their stuff.
Will a Brown bombshell at the Chilcot inquiry win Labour the election? Place your bets 2010
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