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objectionable | American Dictionary

objectionable
adjective
us/əbˈdʒek·ʃə·nə·bəl/
causing offense or opposition:
objectionable behavior

Examples of objectionable

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In the unobtrusive version, the affirmative action statement is embedded in a list of other potentially objectionable items about taxes, pollution and so on.
If hate speech were really inarticulate, it would cease to be understandable, meaningful, or objectionable.
But profiteering was not the only objectionable behavior.
Without proper planning, design, and management, development activities result in considerable generation of waste and other environmentally objectionable materials.
It would simply be objectionable as a failure to value oneself properly.
For some, this is no more objectionable than the existence of identical twins and test-tube babies; for others, it represents a threat to human identity.
In addition to these omissions, there are a number of clauses that activists found to be highly objectionable.
After all, almost everybody has some mental state that plays some role in common with highly objectionable unconditional intentions.
It is arguable that risky behaviour for the chance of a small gain is morally objectionable.
And as a thesis about the modern municipal system, the reinterpretation is just as objectionable as the interpretation it seeks to replace.
These objectionable private behaviors were first viewed as moral or characterbased problems, best controlled by social disapproval.
In addition, they were asked to rate whether any of the wording was objectionable or offensive in some way.
Willingness and ability to object to objectionable care are character traits that further the goals of beneficence and nonmalificence.
All animals suffer to some degree for our convenience, and those who find this objectionable have no alternative but to become vegetarians.
But it would not be objectionable as forgiveness.
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