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Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
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Acceptable Quotations
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Richard M. Nixon
I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!
Kim Kardashian
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Carroll Quigley
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
Billie Jean King
Acceptable Translations
acceptable in Dutch is acceptabel, aanvaardbaar, aannemelijk
acceptable in French is acceptable, potable, licite
acceptable in German is annehmbare, annehmbar
acceptable in Norwegian is akseptabelt
acceptable in Spanish is aceptable, admisible, permisible, razonable
acceptable in Swedish is acceptabelt, godtagbart
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