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OBJECTIONABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to
Example:
found the politician's views objectionable
Synonyms:
exceptionable; objectionable
Classified under:
Similar:
unacceptable (not acceptable; not welcome)
Derivation:
objectionableness (the quality of being hateful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Causing disapproval or protest
Example:
a vulgar and objectionable person
Synonyms:
objectionable; obnoxious
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Derivation:
objectionableness (the quality of being hateful)
Context examples:
I know no harm of Charles Maddox; but the excessive intimacy which must spring from his being admitted among us in this manner is highly objectionable, the more than intimacy—the familiarity.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my dismission from your daughter's lips instead of your own.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
While I, to blind the world to our engagement, was behaving one hour with objectionable particularity to another woman, was she to be consenting the next to a proposal which might have made every previous caution useless?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
How proper Mr. Tilney might be as a dreamer or a lover had not yet perhaps entered Mr. Allen's head, but that he was not objectionable as a common acquaintance for his young charge he was on inquiry satisfied; for he had early in the evening taken pains to know who her partner was, and had been assured of Mr. Tilney's being a clergyman, and of a very respectable family in Gloucestershire.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Going in to exult over a fallen enemy and to praise a strong-minded sister for the banishment of an objectionable lover, it certainly was a shock to behold the aforesaid enemy serenely sitting on the sofa, with the strongminded sister enthroned upon his knee and wearing an expression of the most abject submission.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I am perfectly acquainted with the play, I assure you; and with a very few omissions, and so forth, which will be made, of course, I can see nothing objectionable in it; and I am not the only young woman you find who thinks it very fit for private representation.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison to that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and occasionally even by your father.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
