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Meaning acceptable meaning
What does acceptable mean?
Definitions in simple English
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Synonyms acceptable synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as acceptable?
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Topics acceptable topics
What do people use acceptable to talk about?
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What words refer to being acceptable?
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What words describe the behavior of someone who acts acceptably?
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What words describe something that people are allowed to do?
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What words refer to something someone does that is right for a particular situation?
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What words refer to accepting an offer?
Examples acceptable examples
How do I use acceptable in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Is the price acceptable?
Those terms are not acceptable for us.
Doing math is the only socially acceptable way to masturbate in public.
It is not acceptable to our moral code.
The decision was acceptable to us all.
His work was acceptable, but far from excellent.
His ideas are too radical to be acceptable to most people.
His proposal was not acceptable.
Kissing one's spouse in public is considered acceptable behavior in some countries.
There are conditions under which breaking a promise or telling a lie are acceptable.
Tom's behavior wasn't acceptable.
It's acceptable.
Flowers are always acceptable.
Would this be acceptable to you?
It is sometimes acceptable to resort to violence.
Is this price acceptable?
Let's find a solution that is acceptable to everyone.
That's acceptable.
That's not acceptable.
This is acceptable.
Is this acceptable?
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More, perhaps, than you ultimately found to be acceptable.
Definitely an acceptable room.
I regret that I am not acceptable.
We can assume the waiver is acceptable.
The juror is acceptable to the People.
Then, is it acceptable to you for a student to have a baby?
This is not acceptable, this is a madhouse.
This marriage will make him acceptable to the people.
Elsewhere, being gracious is acceptable.
This isn't acceptable. We don't tolerate this kind of mistake.
I'm sure that we can find a mutually-acceptable solution.
I am acceptable to Santa Anna.
If he should be defeated, I will manage to become acceptable to his successors.
To be acceptable to the powers that be.
My Arab blood was acceptable on the battlefield.
But, uh, another glass of champagne might be acceptable, huh?
If my terms are acceptable, instruct your colonel to raise the white flag.
I make your foolish little dance steps acceptable to an audience.
Now, somewhere between 500 and 5 million. there must be an acceptable figure.
In my opinion, as well as my mother's, it was the only acceptable solution.
What Kim does is not acceptable.
I have eight days to find an acceptable match, or else.
For my father, you'd be acceptable.
But shortage of personnel is not an acceptable excuse.
Does that seem acceptable to you?
In the kidnapping racket, only cash is acceptable.
Listen, you don't think his behaviour is acceptable?
I still have a mind of my own. Elsewhere, being gracious is acceptable.
You make a very acceptable merchant.
But combating one wrong with another is not acceptable, nor bringing one person out of danger by endangering another.
Advise me if my terms are acceptable.
But our table of organisation is under acceptable strength.
Oh, don't be ridiculous, my boy, this is a perfectly acceptable method of travel.
We would therefore prevail. and suffer only modest and acceptable civilian casualties. from their remaining force which would be badly damaged and uncoordinated.
It is not acceptable!
Erm, before we actually light the fire shouldn't we see if such a gift would be acceptable to the gods?
I consider the safety factor low, but acceptable.
Traces of argon, neon, krypton, all in acceptable quantities.
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If the bonds were acceptable as collateral before the restructuring, surely they were safer after the restructuring, and thus equally acceptable.
Nations could set the more ambitious goal of limiting the long-term change in the earth's temperature, and then assign emissions rights among countries in such a way that will eventually limit temperature increases to an acceptable level.
There really are effective long-term solutions to manmade climate change that are politically acceptable and feasible to implement.
The problem, as in 1991, is the absence of a suitable government to fill the vacuum, one acceptable to the region and to the US.
In addition, some religious leaders argue that human rights can be acceptable only if they are founded on the transcendent values of faith and are thus sanctioned by God.
Are such changes acceptable to workers and employers?
But it seems unconscionable that the ECB would delegate to a secret committee of self-interested market participants the right to determine what is an acceptable debt restructuring.
Under the state censorship system, most discussions are limited to politically acceptable topics, such as legal reform and anti-corruption efforts.
Solar and wind power appear to be acceptable, but both are much less reliable than coal, and much more expensive.
The idea behind a slippery slope is that if you do x, which is acceptable, you will end up doing y, which is not.
On the logical slippery slope, you slide to the bottom and embrace the morally unacceptable because there is no way to distinguish it from an acceptable practice.
At the political level, capitalism requires compensation and transfer mechanisms to render its outcomes acceptable.
To function and remain socially acceptable, however, capitalism must be as clean as possible.
Under Arafat's long rule, whole generations of Palestinians have been indoctrinated with the belief that only total victory is acceptable.
But on Planet Worst, forcing terrified, uneducated women to remain at home is more socially acceptable than facing the fact that this means choosing to drag down incomes for everyone.
Not only has this untested policy experiment failed to deliver an acceptable economic recovery; it has also heightened the risk of another crisis.
This was not acceptable to Brazil, the leading force behind the FTAA, which focuses exclusively on trade issues.
For Iranians, as bearers of faith and national pride, responses that seem to others self-righteous and irrational are, in fact, necessary and acceptable.
A bumpy ride is acceptable as long as the landing is smooth.
What kinds of power plants will be acceptable in the future?
Only time will tell if all these measures will bring air pollution down to acceptable levels.