the unacceptable face of something

unacceptable | American Dictionary

unacceptable
adjective
us/ˌʌn·ɪkˈsep·tə·bəl/
too bad to be accepted, approved of, or allowed to continue:
These mistakes are unacceptable.
The proposal is unacceptable to theater owners.

Examples of unacceptable

unacceptable
She found living in limbo, neither dead nor alive, unacceptable.
The haptic interfaces are used wherever the using of only visual feedback can introduce unacceptable manipulation errors.
He knew that she would find it awkward, if not unacceptable, for his subordinate to address him by his first name.
On the other hand, high velocity in the atmosphere leads to unacceptable drag losses.
Alluding to the dialogical nature of space and the resulting fluidity of the meaning of place still is fine, yet in its generality unacceptable.
They are claimed to be unacceptable in the past tense with modifiers specifying definite past moments.
The definite article therefore becomes unacceptable here not because the referent is not known in an immediate situation but because of cultural practice.
Denials based on claims that certain races or ethnic groups are inferior and can legitimately be denied basic rights, for example, seem to me unacceptable.
Many of the items in the acceptability questionnaire had four response options, ranging from very acceptable through to very unacceptable.
I align with the latter view - history has witnessed the flourishing of many normative systems we now find dubious or even paradigmatically unacceptable.
Although certain of its theoretical interpretations and political connotations have been rightly criticised, that does not render the term itself unacceptable.
Bargaining with unions provided the least unacceptable means of stabilizing industrial relations, and provided a means of limiting labor's influence in the workplace.
The notion of necessary universalism, however, is a much stronger claim, and has been rejected as an unacceptable position.
At the end of the experiment, tick numbers on control cattle again rose to ethically unacceptable levels.
Under this model, appeals to processing limitations other than those experienced by adults to explain non-adultlike performance by children are unacceptable.
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