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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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
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 Sherwin Cody
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 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
I think a little omission would greatly lessen the objectionableness of these sentences if you have not time to recast and amplify.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
