Meaning of OBJECTIONABLE
| Pronunciation: | | ub'jekshunubul
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- [adj] liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to; "a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing"; "found the politician's views objectionable"
- [adj] causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
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| | Synonyms: | | exceptionable, obnoxious, offensive, unacceptable, unpleasant |
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| | Definition: | | \Ob*jec"tion*a*ble\, a.
Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved
of; offensive; as, objectionable words. --
{Ob*jec"tion*a*bly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | abhorrent, abominable, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, censurable, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disagreeable, discommendable, disgusting, distasteful, exceptionable, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, ignoble, illaudable, ill-favored, impossible, inadmissible, indefensible, intolerable, invidious, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rebarbative, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unacceptable, uncommendable, undesirable, unfit, unpleasant, unpraiseworthy, unsuitable, untenable, unwanted, unwelcome, vile |
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