objectionable
adjective
causing or tending to cause an objection, disapproval, or protest.
objectionableness
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a word derived from
objectionable.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, so disturbing was it, not because of any inherent objectionableness, but because of its implication of a change, that the Colonel found himself quite thrown out of his accustomed line of procedure.
From A Venetian June by Anna Fuller
The prime objectionableness of slang is its hideous lack of originality.
From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce
"Not that any number of baths," he remarked, "would conceal a man's objectionableness from an antelope—not even a she-one."
From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Owen Wister
Thank you for your concern; but hardly can I equally thank you for so steadily maintaining the hypothesis of my friend's objectionableness.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
