objectionable
/əbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l
/adjective
Arousing distaste or opposition; unpleasant or offensive: I find his theory objectionable in its racist undertones...
- Personally I think four letter words used in an offensive way are all objectionable.
- Some of these comments, however, I find offensive or otherwise objectionable.
- To those who found it offensive, objectionable or even just irritating I can only ask for forgiveness.
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
- 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.
- It seems a shame to waste his objectionableness by just rolling it into a general objection to America, but there we go.
objectionably
/ adverb ...- When he missed, several of the Arsenal players taunted him rather objectionably, for which 6 of them now face conduct investigations.
- 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.
- When judges are doing this, they are acting objectionably even under his approach.