Exact Match:
- exception
- a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
- an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization; "all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child"; "an exception tests the rule"
- grounds for adverse criticism; "his authority is beyond exception"
Synonyms:
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abnormality,
- adverse criticism,
- allowance,
- amazement,
- animadversion,
- anomaly,
- answer,
- argument,
- aspersion,
- astonishing thing,
- astonishment,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- beef,
- bitch,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- boycott,
- call into question,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- cession,
- challenge,
- charter,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- circumscription,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- concession,
- condition,
- contempt,
- contradiction,
- conversation piece,
- counterstatement,
- criticism,
- curio,
- curiosity,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- declination,
- declining,
- defense,
- demarcation,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- denial,
- departure,
- despisal,
- despising,
- diplomatic immunity,
- disagree with,
- disapproval,
- discard,
- discharge,
- disclamation,
- discounting,
- dismissal,
- disownment,
- disregard,
- embargo,
- exclusion,
- exemption,
- expostulation,
- extenuating circumstances,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- franchise,
- freak,
- gazingstock,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- hairsplitting,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- howl,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- ignoring,
- immunity,
- improbability,
- imputation,
- inadmissibility,
- indignation meeting,
- injunction,
- irregularity,
- kick,
- knock,
- legislative immunity,
- liberty,
- license,
- limitation,
- lockout,
- march,
- marvel,
- marvelment,
- mental reservation,
- miracle,
- modification,
- museum piece,
- nagging,
- narrowing,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nonacceptance,
- nonadmission,
- nonapproval,
- nonconsideration,
- nonesuch,
- nonviolent protest,
- object to,
- objection,
- obloquy,
- oddity,
- omission,
- oppose,
- overcriticalness,
- passing by,
- patent,
- peculiarity,
- permission,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- phenomenon,
- picketing,
- plea,
- pleading,
- preclusion,
- priggishness,
- privilege,
- prodigiosity,
- prodigy,
- prohibition,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- provision,
- proviso,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- qualification,
- qualm,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- quirk,
- quite a thing,
- rally,
- rap,
- rarity,
- rebuff,
- rebuttal,
- recantation,
- reflection,
- refusal,
- refutation,
- rejection,
- release,
- relegation,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- renouncement,
- reply,
- reproachfulness,
- repudiation,
- repulse,
- reservation,
- response,
- restriction,
- riposte,
- salvo,
- scouting,
- scruple,
- sensation,
- sight,
- sit-in,
- slam,
- something else,
- special case,
- special demurrer,
- special pleading,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- spectacle,
- spurning,
- squawk,
- statement of defense,
- stipulation,
- strange thing,
- stricture,
- strike,
- string,
- stunner,
- swipe,
- taboo,
- take exception to,
- taking exception,
- teach-in,
- term,
- throwing out,
- trichoschistism,
- turning out,
- waiver,
- wonder,
- wonderful thing,
- wonderment