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1 exceptionable
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2 exceptionable
adj.blâmable; criticable; qui appelle des réserves; pf. offensantEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > exceptionable
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3 wrong
wrong [rɒŋ]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective2. adverb3. noun4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective• you've picked the wrong man if you want someone to mend a fuse vous tombez mal si vous voulez quelqu'un qui puisse réparer un fusible• you are wrong to think that tu as tort de penser cela► to get sth/sb wrongc. ( = exceptionable) there's nothing wrong with hoping that... il n'y a pas de mal à espérer que...• there's nothing wrong with it [+ plan] c'est tout à fait valable ; [+ machine, car] ça marche très bien► what's wrong? qu'est-ce qui ne va pas ?• what's wrong with you? qu'est-ce que tu as ?• what's wrong with your arm? qu'est-ce que vous avez au bras ?• what's wrong with the car? qu'est-ce qu'elle a, la voiture ?2. adverb[answer, guess] mal• how wrong can you get! (inf) comme on peut se tromper !• you can't go wrong (in directions) vous ne pouvez pas vous tromper ; (in choice of job, car) (de toute façon) c'est un bon choix3. nouna. ( = evil) mal mb. ( = injustice) injustice f• to right a wrong réparer une injustice (PROV) two wrongs don't make a right on ne répare pas une injustice par une autre injusticec. ► in the wrong4. compounds► wrong-foot transitive verb (Sport) prendre à contre-pied ; (British figurative) prendre au dépourvu* * *[rɒŋ], US [rɔːŋ] 1.1) [U] ( evil) mal min their eyes, she could do no wrong — pour eux, tout ce qu'elle faisait était parfait
2) ( injustice) tort m3) Law délit m2.1) ( incorrect) ( ill-chosen) mauvais; ( containing errors) erronéto take the wrong turning GB ou turn — ne pas tourner au bon endroit
don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that he's stupid but... — ne te méprends pas, je ne dis pas qu'il est idiot mais...
don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing you — ne le prends pas mal, je ne te critique pas
2) ( reprehensible)there's nothing wrong with ou in something — il n'y a pas de mal à quelque chose
3) ( mistaken)to be wrong — [person] avoir tort, se tromper
am I wrong in thinking that...? — ai-je tort de penser que...?
4) ( not as it should be)3.what's wrong with you? — ( to person suffering) qu'est-ce que tu as?; ( to person behaving oddly) qu'est-ce qui t'arrive?
to get something wrong — se tromper de quelque chose [date, time, details]; se tromper dans quelque chose [calculations]
to go wrong — [person] se tromper; [machine] ne plus marcher; [plan] ne pas marcher
you won't go far wrong if... — vous ne risquez pas de faire fausse route si...
4.you can't go wrong — ( in choice of route) tu ne peux pas te tromper; ( are bound to succeed) tu peux être tranquille
transitive verb ( treat unjustly) faire du tort à [person, family]••to be in the wrong — être dans mon/ton etc tort
to be wrong in the head — (colloq) être dérangé (colloq)
to go down the wrong way — [food, drink] passer de travers
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Exceptionable — Ex*cep tion*a*ble ([e^]k*s[e^]p sh[u^]n*[.a]*b l), a. Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. {Ex*cep tion*a*ble*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
exceptionable — index blameful, objectionable, peccable, reprehensible, sinister, unacceptable, undesirable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. W … Law dictionary
exceptionable — 1660s, from EXCEPTION (Cf. exception) + ABLE (Cf. able). Related: Exceptionably … Etymology dictionary
exceptionable — *exceptional Analogous words: Offensive, repugnant, loathsome, repulsive, revolting: repellent, distasteful, obnoxious, invidious, *repugnant Antonyms: unexceptionable: exemplary Contrasted words: pleasing, agreeable, gratifying, *pleasant,… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
exceptionable — ► ADJECTIVE formal ▪ open to objection; causing disapproval or offence … English terms dictionary
exceptionable — [ek sep′shənə bəl, ik sep′shənə bəl] adj. liable to exception; open to objection exceptionably adv … English World dictionary
exceptionable — exceptional, exceptionable These adjectives relate to different meanings of exception. Exceptional means ‘unusual, not typical’, i.e. ‘forming an exception’ in a favourable sense: • Schizophrenes are often held to be people of exceptional charm D … Modern English usage
exceptionable — adjective Date: 1691 being likely to cause objection ; objectionable < visitors even drink the exceptionable beer W. D. Howells > • exceptionability noun • exceptionably adverb … New Collegiate Dictionary
exceptionable — See exceptionable, exceptional … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
exceptionable — adjective formal making you feel offended and angry: a highly exceptionable remark … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
exceptionable, exceptional — These often confused words are not interchangeable. The former means objectionable ; the latter means extraordinary, uncommon, unusual : The judge ruled the behavior of the witness exceptionable and had him removed from the courtroom. Martha has… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions