as in wrong
falling short of a standard
this work is entirely unacceptable
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Recent Examples of unacceptable
Making a gay guy go to a high school football game…unacceptable.
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
The alternative — a society where frustration metastasizes into violence — is unacceptable.
—Dave Catalfamo, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
As a result, what would generally be considered unacceptable vigilantism was legitimated.
—Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Example prompts, and what determines an acceptable or unacceptable response, are detailed in AILuminate’s Assessment Standard documentation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2024
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
The alternative — a society where frustration metastasizes into violence — is unacceptable.
—Dave Catalfamo, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
As a result, what would generally be considered unacceptable vigilantism was legitimated.
—Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Example prompts, and what determines an acceptable or unacceptable response, are detailed in AILuminate’s Assessment Standard documentation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unacceptable
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There’s nothing wrong with that New Year’s Eve drone show, or occasional other artistic and creative displays.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Begiristain is being shown up not for signing bad players but for letting the wrong ones leave.Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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His role comes a year after a poor performance in his Madison Square Garden debut just eight games into his NBA career: 14 points on 4-of-14 shooting to go along with nine rebounds and a block.Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 25 Dec. 2024
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As of Tuesday afternoon, a winter weather advisory was in place warning of poor driving conditions in parts of the state.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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As holidays go, however, Flag Day can feel a bit lame.Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
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My 11-year-old loved watching the pups roll balls and play a giant floor piano, but for non-dog owners (guilty as charged), parts of the series—like dressing dogs in little hats and outfits for a Parisian fashion show—feel lame.Tim Neville, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2020
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Their first tryst starts off like a bad porno with Samuel and Romy improvising a script that feels phony even to them.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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The team has gotten worse as a result of Adams’ offseason moves.Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Iron deficiency can definitely cause symptoms—but many of them are so common that they could easily be attributed to other things like not drinking enough water, being deficient in Vitamin B12, or hormonal fluctuations.Christina Pérez, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
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As professional practice and compelling television, the tactic is equally deficient.Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
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Despite Fraser Forster making a couple of horrible mistakes in the Carabao Cup quarter-final against Manchester United, then conceding six against Liverpool, the wisest move might be to sign a younger back-up goalkeeper for the long-term.Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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Specifically, Trump often points to the horrible human costs of the war and indicates a desire to put an end to the fighting as soon as possible.Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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Murray’s magic trick Murray’s uncanny ability to transform awful individual performances into timely heat checks and cold-blooded game-winners is one of life’s great mysteries.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2024
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Her awful journey is a raging scream against the patriarchy and a biting critique of how women are viewed, especially by other women.The Week US, theweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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That would be a terrible mistake, the Fienberg brothers argued in a Dec. 17 letter that addressed only Bowers’s federal death sentence.David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Dec. 2024
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People talk about the terrible twos, but she’s found her foothold in that kind of behavior, and there’s just no reasoning with her.Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Unacceptable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unacceptable. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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