tolerablyformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not good enough
be not onidiom
beneath
cop
deficiency
deficiency in something
intolerable
intolerably
lamely
lameness
leave a lot to be desiredidiom
sadness
second-rate
sub-optimum
subaverage
suboptimal
unsatisfactory
unsatisfying
unsound
unworthily
unworthy

Examples of unacceptably

unacceptably
If this shows an unacceptably large error, say greater than 10 mm, then it should be corrected.
However, this would have added unacceptably to the length of the present study and waits further analysis.
The demand for choice was linked to the critique against the counties for rigid administration, unacceptably long waiting times for certain hospital treatments.
When the analysis was run in two dimensions, an unacceptably high stress level of 0.17 resulted.
For example, testing plans that have particularly large seed pools may have unacceptably high false-negative rates.
Even the most precise prediction table or equation would vastly and unacceptably overpredict in this case.
However, to many, the words only protrude unacceptably.
It follows, unacceptably, that the fair court should rule either that all events in the spectrum are violations of the statute or that none are.
But however much a breakthrough, "two souls" is still an unacceptably limited account of the self.
This is an unacceptably high false-positive rate and is the reason that intervention programs have not been feasible in the past.
Sufficient predictive accuracy would solve the related problems of unacceptably high false-positive rates and of unnecessar y overcommitment.
The inhalation of 5% or 7% carbon dioxide during core cooling made the brain unacceptably acidotic.
Both display historiographical thinking of a questionable sort at times, and both occasionally lapse into unacceptably anachronistic discussions of medieval music.
Additionally, hospital healthcare providers' knowledge of policies and laws governing organ donation remains unacceptably low.
However, all three tests had an unacceptably high false-negative rate (9.5-35%); so that a practical test is still needed.
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