Objectionable
[əb'dʒekʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l]
Definition
(adj.) causing disapproval or protest; 'a vulgar and objectionable person' .
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Definition
(a.) Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Exceptionable.
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Examples
- Halliday turned objectionable, and I only just saved myself from jumping in his stomach, in a real old-fashioned row. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Another objectionable circumstance is, that the pokey unknowns support each other in being unimpressible. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Gradgrind frowned, and waved off the objectionable calling with his hand. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objectionable practice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- What sister would think herself at liberty to do it, unless there were something very objectionable? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my dismission from your daughter's lips instead of your own. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Why, yes, said he, those stories are extremely objectionable. Plato. The Republic.
- Her first husband was objectionable, which made it the greater wonder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Treatment with carbolic acid also leaves a most objectionable odor, especially in fine leather goods. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: I must keep in good health, and not die. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then John Jarndyce discovers that Ada and I must break off and that if I don't amend that very objectionable course, I am not fit for her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Contact with the air is also objectionable. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If their snoring became objectionable to those still at work, the 'calmer' was applied. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But these were objectionable on account of the fumes emitted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The most objectionable part is, that the alteration of manners on being introduced into company is frequently too sudden. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- If this arrangement should be objectionable, I'll--' and with the same smile he made a significant feint of backing away. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But many persons object to this; hence it is well to have some other easy method of removing the objectionable matter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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