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acceptable face of —, the the tolerable or acceptable aspect of something regarded as hostile or alarming. Often ironic, and deriving from Edward Heath's comment made in 1973 about the activities of the Lonrho company as showing ‘the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism’.
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