exceptionable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   open to objection or criticism; offensive, unacceptable, or otherwise liable to disapproval (formal)

   The committee removed the most exceptionable passage before publication.

From exception + -able, using exception in its older sense 'objection' rather than today's usual sense 'case outside a rule.' Exception came through Old French from Latin exceptio, from excipere ('take out, except'). This history explains why exceptionable means objectionable, not exceptional.

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