unaccepted


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unaccepted

(ˌʌnəkˈsɛptɪd)
adj
not received or accepted
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Adj.1.unaccepted - not conforming to standard usageunaccepted - not conforming to standard usage; "the following use of `access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; `You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'"
unacceptable
linguistics - the scientific study of language
nonstandard - not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; "a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups"; "the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech"- A.R.Dunlap
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Skidder's door as he was red-inking a stage direction for Myrtle Delorme (Miss Leeson) in his (unaccepted) comedy, to "pirouette across stage from L to the side of the Count." Up the carpeted ladder she crawled at last and opened the door of the skylight room.
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The disease, as Guenaud had predicted, had become worse; it was no longer an attack of gout, it was an attack of death; then there was another thing which made that agony more agonizing still, -- and that was the agitation brought into his mind by the donation he had sent to the king, and which, according to Colbert, the king ought to send back unaccepted to the cardinal.
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Al-Suhail said in a statement to NINA: "There are those who are trying to pressure the naming of a governor of Baghdad from outside it, and this is unaccepted at all and we will stand to face those who try to impose it." He pointed out that "our rejection is not directed to any person or entity."
Suhail: We Will Not Accept Any Pressure To Name The Governor Of Baghdad From Outside It

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