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Unexceptionably
UNEXCEP'TIONABLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
unexceptionably
unexceptionably
English
Adverb
unexceptionably (comparative more unexceptionably, superlative most unexceptionably)
- In an unexceptionable manner.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Volume 9, Letter 69,
- I told him my dislike of all men—of him—of matrimony—still he persisted. I used him with tyranny—led, indeed, partly by my temper, partly by design; hoping thereby to get rid of him; till the poor man (his character unexceptionably uniform) still persisting, made himself a merit with me by his patience.
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Milton,
- The sentiments, as expressive of manners, or appropriated to characters, are, for the greater part, unexceptionably just.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter 6,
- Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably. She had given them neither men, nor names, nor places, that could raise a blush.
- 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Four,
- His things were all severely, unexceptionably masculine and patrician—his cologne from Panhelicon, his shoes from Church’s, his suits, shirts, and ties from Brooks, his black lisle stockings knee-high and held up by garters, his hat from Lock’s in London: exactly the wardrobe lots of money and no confidence would have selected in London or New York […]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Volume 9, Letter 69,