"serious exception" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe a situation or circumstance that goes against a general rule or norm and is considered to have significant consequences or implications. Example: Despite her otherwise flawless performance, her tardiness was a serious exception that could not be overlooked by the judges.
Have you seen his wife?' Freud took serious exception to this slur on his wife's appearance and it was some time and many assurances of 'it was only a joke' before good relations were restored.
The main reason for the heaviness of my defeat was the Falklands war, with many rural working-class voters taking serious exception to my CND badge and my being labelled "the peace candidate" by the local press.
Well, she took serious exception to it and came over to tell a group of female MPs how outrageously he had behaved, but she didn't take any action over it.
Relations between Christians and Muslims throughout West Africa (with the serious exception of Nigeria) have generally been so laid-back and tolerant, however, that, even with a civil war going on in Ivory Coast, I didn't get the feeling that religious hatred was sweeping the populace.
The company took serious exception.
The most serious exception was Ba ion-exchanged dealuminated mordenite which experimentally exhibited the slowest deactivation.
In defense of this objection several epistemologists have argued that these kinds of exceptions are not serious exceptions, and therefore, the inference from appearances to reality is defeasibly valid.
A consumer society was also emerging, but in 1959 advertisements in the paper were mostly brief and serious – the exceptions coming from car-makers and, unexpectedly, the Conservative party.
The children who participated were all, without exception, serious and committed.
His most recent play, "Stone Cold Dead Serious," is no exception to that dark milieu.
With a few shining exceptions, serious musicians cashed in their 15 minutes and went on to either self-destruct or do what actually matters: make good music at a smaller scale for people who actually listen.
