objectionableadj.n.

1653 J. Goodwin Συγκρητισμός 15 Are not the grounds of most mens confidence, rather ignorance, or want of consideration, of such things, which are strongly objectionable against their notions and apprehensions, [etc.]?

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lvii. 367 Mr. Locke gives a great many very pretty Instructions relating to the Play-games of Children; but I humbly presume to think what he says, in one or two Places, a little objectionable.

1776 T. Jefferson Let. 26 Aug. in Papers (1950) I. 504 I think the present mode of election objectionable because the larger county will be able to send and will always send a man (less fit perhaps) of their own county to the exclusion of a fitter who may chance to live in a smaller county.

1797 Monthly Rev. 24 555 This pentalogue is chiefly objectionable on account of the vague drift of the fifth commandment.

1822 J. Galt Provost xxviii. 215 Having made early offers of service, on terms less objectionable in every point than those of many offers subsequently made and accepted.

1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (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.

1881 G. M. Fenn Off to Wilds xxii. 156 The crocodiles are most objectionable beasts.

1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island ii. 13 Moody Spurgeon MacPherson, whose round face and objectionable ears were as round and objectionable as ever.

1938 D. Thomas Let. 31 Aug. (1985) 322 I've just had..a lawyer's list of the objectionable words, phrases, & whole chunks in my short stories.

1988 P. Gay Freud iv. 194 Gustav Aschaffenburg..curtly dismissed the psychoanalytic method as wrong, objectionable and unnecessary.

1836 C. G. F. Gore Mrs. Armytage II. vi. 81 Even the leading tradesmen of the place..had not the slightest notion of extending her hospitality to the endless tribe of strange objectionables, with whom an election, like misery, makes a man acquainted.

1884 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 295/2 We consign our own ‘objectionables’ to Jericho.

1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 117 The whiskified Objectionable, Unclean, abominable, out-at-heels.

1937 Echo (Accra) 8 Oct. 1/1 We have quite an army of objectionables.

1980 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 67 404 A tendency..to blur the senses of words that sometimes got me off the train of thought as effectively as dust and other objectionables on the trail.