Example Sentences

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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 Bierce, Ambrose

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 Darwin, Francis, Sir

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

"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 Wister, Owen

The prime objectionableness of slang is its hideous lack of originality.

From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Bierce, Ambrose