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objectionable, a. (n.)|əbˈdʒɛkʃənəb(ə)l|
[f. prec. + -able.]
Open to objection; that may be objected to; against which an adverse reason may be urged; now often in weakened sense: Exciting disapproval or dislike, unacceptable, disagreeable, unpleasant.
1781Cowper Lett. Wks. 1837 XV. 110 It does not appear to me that the expression is objectionable: it is plain, indeed, but not bald. 1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 571 It is..not unfrequently termed the ganglionic system... But this term is objectionable, as leading to a supposed analogy between this system and the general nervous system of Invertebrata. 1856Miss Mulock J. Halifax ii, But all this was highly objectionable to Jael. 1881M. E. Herbert Edith 31 People about them..of a very objectionable kind. 1881Fenn Off to the Wilds xxii. 156 The crocodiles are most objectionable beasts.
B. as n. An objectionable person or thing.
1884Blackw. Mag. Mar. 295/2 We consign our own ‘objectionables’ to Jericho. 1886R. Kipling Departm. Ditties, etc. (1899) 117 The whiskified Objectionable, Unclean, abominable, out-at-heels.
Hence obˌjectionaˈbility = next; also something objectionable; obˈjectionableness, the quality of being objectionable; obˈjectionably adv., in an objectionable manner.
1865Pall Mall G. 27 Mar. 3/1 What possible objectionabilities may the practice of riding to hounds lead to? 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. xiii. §25 Expressive of general objectionableness and unpleasantness. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 322 One of the objectionably placed churches in the Alhambra precincts. |