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English
Etymology
From unexceptionable + -ly.
Adverb
unexceptionably (comparative more unexceptionably, superlative most unexceptionably)
- In an unexceptionable manner.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson; , →OCLC:I told him my dislike of all men—of him—of matrimony—still he persisted. I used him with tyranny—led, indeed, partly by my temper, partly by design; hoping thereby to get rid of him; till the poor man (his character unexceptionably uniform) still persisting, made himself a merit with me by his patience.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 6, in Emma: , volume III, London: for John Murray, →OCLC:Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably. She had given them neither men, nor names, nor places, that could raise a blush.
1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:His things were all severely, unexceptionably masculine and patrician—his cologne from Panhelicon, his shoes from Church’s, his suits, shirts, and ties from Brooks, his black lisle stockings knee-high and held up by garters, his hat from Lock’s in London: exactly the wardrobe lots of money and no confidence would have selected in London or New York […]