How to Use unacceptable in a Sentence

unacceptable

adjective

• Some of her ideas were unacceptable to other people.
• Does that mean the Senate bill would be unacceptable in the house?
  — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2022
• The idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine’s expense is unacceptable.
  — Morgan Phillips, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024
• And even then the yelling and blaming are unacceptable.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 May 2022
• But having his bride walk down the aisle in anything less than her dream dress was unacceptable to the groom.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• Six turnovers, no field goals in the second half, that’s unacceptable.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2022
• Not being able to count the number of home runs is unacceptable.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 19 July 2022
• His interception in the end zone on fourth-and-goal with 4:15 to play was unacceptable.
  — Baltimore Sun, 2 Oct. 2022
• The status quo in Maryland and across the country is unacceptable.
  — Nicole D. Porter, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
• But to rights groups, that’s an unacceptable status quo.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• The string of deadly attacks across the city over the past week have elicited rage and fear from the city’s leaders, who say the violence is unacceptable.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
• Hubby needs to put on his big boy pants and let his family know the treatment of his spouse is unacceptable.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• The fact that the Browns were semi expecting this kind of breakout for the Dolphins on the ground made the performance that much more unacceptable.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
• Anything less would be unacceptable and a step back in the wrong direction.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
• To Sefolosha, any agreement that let the officers off the hook was unacceptable.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• This misbehavior is unacceptable, and not in line with our efforts across TikTok to earn the trust of our users.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
• In high school, his parents again believed the campus around the corner was unacceptable and sent the siblings out of the neighborhood.
  — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• The actions of some of the people that attended were unacceptable.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
• If the state misses the deadline or submits maps the court deems unacceptable, the three-judge panel could hire a third party, known as a special master, to draw the maps.
  — Ralph Chapoco, al, 13 July 2023
• Speed often leads to mistakes being made, and in Japan, that is unacceptable.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• The behavior is unacceptable, but the emotions are valid.
  — Sharneé Carrington, Parents, 1 Dec. 2023
• For Peter, the problems are clear: Nicolas is self-harming, and that is unacceptable.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2023
• For Israel, any plan that leaves Hamas standing — much less in power over Gaza — is unacceptable.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• That is unacceptable, and Rice was fulfilling her duties to name that.
  — Frederick Davie, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
• Such statements are unacceptable from anyone, let alone a draft dodger seeking to be the commander-in-chief.
  — Matthew Paul McCaffery, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
• A lot of them are about how the mother reacts to behavior that is totally unacceptable from a man.
  — Thessaly La Force, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024
• Damage to our reefs and cultures sites is unacceptable.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
• The state argued that the district court heard from at least a hundred experts and was not convinced the method was likely to lead to an unacceptable level of pain before death.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The letters were not uniformly spaced, and carried elements that in a formal typeface would be considered unacceptable; p wasn’t a mirror-opposite of q, for example.
  — Simon Garfield, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
• Democracy depends on the idea that the socially unacceptable might become acceptable.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024