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单词 objectionable
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Definition of objectionable in English:

objectionable

adjective əbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəb(ə)ləbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l
  • Arousing distaste or opposition; unpleasant or offensive.

    I find his theory objectionable in its racist undertones
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not only is it objectionable but it is also patently ridiculous.
    • Without that democracy, my vote will be no, even if I have to share that vote with some of the most objectionable people possible.
    • What if I don't really like your site or I think there is objectionable material on it?
    • She's trying to sound as objectionable as possible, surely; that's the only explanation.
    • He reserves the right to refuse designs that he considers offensive, immoral, or objectionable.
    • It is made all the more objectionable by virtue of the fact that it offends not only the sense of hearing, but the sense of sight also.
    • But what about the dignity of the dummy, who acted the objectionable scenes on her behalf?
    • Some of these comments, however, I find offensive or otherwise objectionable.
    • It's the banality, rather than the misogyny, which is objectionable.
    • This is certainly a worthy cause for which to go into battle, and the boycott was indeed wholly objectionable for this reason alone.
    • To those who found it offensive, objectionable or even just irritating I can only ask for forgiveness.
    • I wonder what the revolting students find objectionable about that.
    • It is objectionable because of the terms in which this is put.
    • Personally I think four letter words used in an offensive way are all objectionable.
    • Are their tears less objective and more objectionable than your rancour?
    • The publishers promised to delete objectionable paragraphs from the book.
    • As Nietzsche explained, suffering is objectionable and senseless unless it is witnessed.
    • No one seems to find profiling objectionable here, despite its bad name in the press.
    • In a country where love is objectionable, hatred for sure reigns supreme.
    • Aidwa says this is objectionable because it projects a daughter as a liability and a son as an investment.
    Synonyms
    offensive, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, displeasing, unacceptable, off-putting, undesirable, obnoxious
    nasty, disgusting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, revolting, abhorrent, loathsome, hateful, detestable, reprehensible, deplorable, appalling, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, odious, vile, obscene, foul, unsavoury, unpalatable, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, noxious
    informal ghastly, horrible, horrid, sick-making
    British informal beastly
    Northern Irish informal bogging
    archaic disgustful, loathly
    rare exceptionable, rebarbative

Derivatives

  • objectionableness

  • noun
    • It seems a shame to waste his objectionableness by just rolling it into a general objection to America, but there we go.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I think a little omission would greatly lessen the objectionableness of these sentences if you have not time to recast and amplify.
      • Two years ago, I wrote a little tongue-in-cheek riff on the objectionableness of mudflap art.
  • objectionably

  • adverb əbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəbliəbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəbli
    • Above all, I want to make sure that I'm observing everything as objectionably as possible that you know how you'll respond as a person.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When judges are doing this, they are acting objectionably even under his approach.
      • How can one objectionably write about friends' music?
      • ‘Don't be so insensitive,’ Tamsin said objectionably, but she was still clearly wondering what Freddy had to say for himself.
      • When he missed, several of the Arsenal players taunted him rather objectionably, for which 6 of them now face conduct investigations.
 
 

Definition of objectionable in US English:

objectionable

adjectiveəbˈjekSH(ə)nəb(ə)ləbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l
  • Arousing distaste or opposition; unpleasant or offensive.

    I find his theory objectionable in its racist undertones
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Are their tears less objective and more objectionable than your rancour?
    • It is made all the more objectionable by virtue of the fact that it offends not only the sense of hearing, but the sense of sight also.
    • I wonder what the revolting students find objectionable about that.
    • Some of these comments, however, I find offensive or otherwise objectionable.
    • Personally I think four letter words used in an offensive way are all objectionable.
    • Not only is it objectionable but it is also patently ridiculous.
    • To those who found it offensive, objectionable or even just irritating I can only ask for forgiveness.
    • She's trying to sound as objectionable as possible, surely; that's the only explanation.
    • He reserves the right to refuse designs that he considers offensive, immoral, or objectionable.
    • As Nietzsche explained, suffering is objectionable and senseless unless it is witnessed.
    • Aidwa says this is objectionable because it projects a daughter as a liability and a son as an investment.
    • The publishers promised to delete objectionable paragraphs from the book.
    • But what about the dignity of the dummy, who acted the objectionable scenes on her behalf?
    • What if I don't really like your site or I think there is objectionable material on it?
    • In a country where love is objectionable, hatred for sure reigns supreme.
    • Without that democracy, my vote will be no, even if I have to share that vote with some of the most objectionable people possible.
    • It is objectionable because of the terms in which this is put.
    • No one seems to find profiling objectionable here, despite its bad name in the press.
    • It's the banality, rather than the misogyny, which is objectionable.
    • This is certainly a worthy cause for which to go into battle, and the boycott was indeed wholly objectionable for this reason alone.
    Synonyms
    offensive, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, displeasing, unacceptable, off-putting, undesirable, obnoxious
 
 
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