Acceptable
Acceptable adjective - Of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards.
Usage example: told the bike rental man that a ten-speed with four broken gears was not acceptable
Wrong is an antonym for acceptable.
Wrong
Wrong adjective - Falling short of a standard.
Usage example: there is something wrong with this cake—it has a funny taste
Both words in one sentence
- Junk food is not an acceptable diet, and no amount of immortality elixir will prove that wrong.
Source: Video Game / Revive - The game gets some things right but others wrong, which is acceptable for the sake of gameplay.
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On a Lost Colony where cycles of famine have made cannibalism common and acceptable, he has a preacher teaching that cannibalism is wrong.
Source: Family-Unfriendly Aesop
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