objectionableness
- a word derived from objectionable.
Example Sentences
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Careful examination will show that form, used five times in this paragraph, has at least three very slightly differing meanings, a fact which greatly adds to the objectionableness of the recurrence of the sound.
From The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Cody, Sherwin
The prime objectionableness of slang is its hideous lack of originality.
From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Bierce, Ambrose
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 Melville, Herman
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 Fuller, Anna
It was less the objectionableness of trade—as du Maurier in such a drawing as this tried to imply—than the advance of it that the old aristocracy really resented.
From George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by Wood, T. Martin
