How To Use Objectionable In A Sentence

Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
Both names are unobjectionable, but as the term Caddo has priority by a few pages preference is given to it. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
When the cupel shows signs of the presence of these metals in objectionable quantity, it is well to repeat the assay and scorify so as to remove them before cupellation. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
Over the years, the giant retailer, in exercising its own brand of censorship, has forced recording artists to change lyrics, 'sanitize' album covers, removed certain 'objectionable' magazines from its racks, and generally cultivated its own corporate sense of what the public should or shouldn't see. Al Norman: Wal-Mart Picks Free Speech Fight with Union

The use of the bucket and telpher also eliminated most of the objectionable noise incident to the transfer of spoil from tunnel cars to ordinary wagons at the shaft sites. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits.
-- Since calcium carbide is only useful as a means of preparing acetylene, it should be bought under a guarantee (1) that it contains less impurities than suffice to render the crude gas dangerous in respect of spontaneous inflammability, or objectionable in a manner to be explained later on, when consumed; and (2) that it is capable of evolving a fixed minimum quantity of acetylene when decomposed by water. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
Much of the policing so far is unobjectionable in its goals and motivation but barely acceptable in the costs to innocent civilian bystanders.
This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
Nonetheless, colonials judged regulation of nuisances an appropriate arena for courts and local government, leading to lawsuits and regulations aimed at such objectionable trades as butchers and tanners.
The reason that I bothered with the argument of vowelless [mz] being pronounceable is simply that I do, in fluent speech, usually produce the vowelless [mz], and therefore wanted to explain the more objectionable position, figuring the vowelled pronunciation of Ms. could defend itself. “Ms.”-ing the point « Motivated Grammar
I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits.
And the pledges were largely of the motherhood and apple pie kind-wholesome, sensible and entirely unobjectionable.
The most obvious, and in the abstract perhaps least objectionable, kind of informal imperium is that exercised by a country seeking to protect its interests and those of its friends by taking on a policing role in regional conflicts.
Personally I think four letter words used in an offensive way are all objectionable.
Whenever the course of events proved objectionable, Miss Rylance took refuge in a complaint which she called her neuralgia, indicating that it was a species of disorder peculiar to herself, and of a superior quality to everybody else's neuralgia. The Golden Calf
Which do we find less objectionable? Times, Sunday Times
He gesticulated violently, and delivered himself in short, emphatic sentences, interlarded, I am sorry to say, with rather too many of those objectionable expletives that an ex-slave-overseer may be supposed to be addicted to. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
So you feel "Look at how wonderful the eye is, surely it proclaims God's handwork" is reasonable, but "Look at how shoddy the panda's thumb is, surely it denies God's handwork" is objectionable. Assessing Causality
The council tax will retain the most objectionable parts of the poll tax - the head count tax on the individual.
I am not a microbiologist, but my responsibilities at work often require that I understand the difference between a cocci and a rod, Gram-negative and a Gram-positive, and which organisms are "objectionable". Staphylococcus aureus
This argument was presented in a modified form to the effect that the system of monitoring for dioxins and furans (other objectionable organic pollutants) was unreasonable and contrary to Articles 2 and 8 of the Convention.
Hobbes and Spinoza, despite their own differences, advanced, or were read as advancing, a number of objectionable and deeply troubling theses which Leibniz (and most of his contemporaries) saw as an enormous threat: materialism, atheism, and necessitarianism. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The wiretaps are, to my mind, unobjectionable. Times, Sunday Times
It is objectionable because of the terms in which this is put.
Yes; but the term affinity is objectionable in this case, because, as that word is used to express a chemical attraction (which can be destroyed only by decomposition), it cannot be applicable to the slight and transient union that takes place between free caloric and the bodies through which it passes; an union which is so weak, that it constantly yields to the tendency which caloric has to an equilibrium. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
When he went on to suggest there was a lot that was objectionable happening off the ball it only served to heighten a suspicion that he had been whingeing.
These expressions are objectionable, inasmuch as they hint that in a mature organism, with metabolism rather stable, tearing down, or katabolism, could go on faster than building up, or anabolism, or that one of two phases of the same process might go on faster than the other. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
The publishers promised to delete objectionable paragraphs from the book.
English ideas the _pollo_ is more objectionable there than elsewhere, since his idea of riding is to show off the antics of a horse specially taught and made to prance about and curvet while he sits it, his legs sticking out in the position of the Colossus of Rhodes, his heels, armed with spurs, threatening catastrophe to the other riders. Spanish Life in Town and Country
This last practice is objectionable too, as encouraging celibacy, and the disinherison of heirs. — The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia
The test of a fair society is how it deals with that which its majority finds objectionable. Times, Sunday Times
The game was absolutely skewered by the critics, although curiously it's hard to find exactly what was thought to be objectionable.
Finally, severance of the objectionable part seems inappropriate.
Among other things, voters will assume that a PNM victory in those circumstances would mean a sharp and irreversible rise, to the point of insufferableness, in the very arrogance and lack of sensitivity they now find so objectionable. TrinidadExpress Today's News
The trouble is that it is all so unobjectionable. Times, Sunday Times
As Nietzsche explained, suffering is objectionable and senseless unless it is witnessed.
Eyelids which are to deeply pendant and show conspicuously the lachrymal glands, or a very red, thick haw, and eyes that are to light, are objectionable.
And exuberance is surely sometimes entirely unobjectionable, not least in a book that praises it.
We do, after all, have to coexist with our colleagues, even if we find some of them disagreeable if not downright objectionable - while regarding others with perhaps undeserved reverence.
Most recently:•New York City's Department of Education blocked Google Images last month for what it called "objectionable content" but later left it up to schools whether to allow it. Web restrictions draw ire of some educators
He reserves the right to refuse designs that he considers offensive, immoral, or objectionable.
That principle quoted has an unobjectionable ring. Times, Sunday Times
Peucinian and the Athenæan, and the difference between them might be described by the words "citified" and "countrified," without taking either of those terms in an objectionable sense. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rent seeking by the rich, and by the less rich, is objectionable.
I find it kind of discomforting when people I tend to agree with on the issue say things like “I genuinely find nothing objectionable about Tiller’s practice.” Will Saletan’s Moderation
The aplanatic condenser is not corrected for color, hence objectionable color fringes are produced around the field of view diaphragm.
This is certainly a worthy cause for which to go into battle, and the boycott was indeed wholly objectionable for this reason alone.
There was even a short-lived and not too objectionable TV series that punned on her name and used her "voices" as an inspiration. May 30 -- St Joan of Arc
None of this would be objectionable if these frightfully expensive computer-aided super-spy devices were as efficient at detecting cocaine as they are for arms and ammunition.
In contrast to the graphic and scary depiction of parental behaviour in previous NSPCC initiatives, today's ‘Someone To Turn To’ campaign appears unobjectionable.
If the taste is objectionable, however , mix it with a small amount of syrup or honey.
Do you find antiques objectionable on the grounds that, frankly, new stuff is much better? Times, Sunday Times
So ingrained is the reflex of contention that even seemingly unobjectionable ideas provoke it.
Moral disfavour is something you're going to have to get used to, we fear, especially if you're going to carry on preaching the condemnation of homosexuality in a culture that now very often, and more so by the day, deems that message as obsolete and objectionable as the condemnation of "miscegenation. Archive 2010-03-01
At times the turbulence of youth has certainly been most objectionable to both bandsmen and audience.
To those who found it offensive, objectionable or even just irritating I can only ask for forgiveness.
The UK is wrong in arresting this objectionable idiot. The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
His drunken behaviour was extremely objectionable.
Paragraph 11 is objectionable also, in my opinion, in that it appears to contemplate the possibility of a class remedy.
John D: The UK is wrong in arresting this objectionable idiot. The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
This made the task of creating a clear and unobjectionable border extremely difficult. Times, Sunday Times
We want people to stop making objectionable content so we're less tempted to consume it. Christianity Today
‘Our duty is only to give certificates to films and cut objectionable portions,’ he told a TV news channel from Mumbai.
Some applications of automatic face recognition systems are relatively unobjectionable; for example to regulate access to weapons, money, criminal evidence, nuclear materials, or biohazards.
Many bosses no doubt feel well rid of staff whom they find personally objectionable, or who spend all day squabbling with colleagues. Times, Sunday Times
As nakedness goes, the piece is a fairly tame, unobjectionable example.
Like De Quincey, on the other hand, Sharp delights in "fine writing," in both senses of the phrase, in the "highfalutin" that is objectionable, and in the ornately beautiful that is one fitting expression of romantic thought. Irish Plays and Playwrights
The new technology also makes genetically modified organisms less objectionable. Times, Sunday Times
That statement is true, and therefore unobjectionable.
Canada balsam may be substituted for balsam of copaiba where the smell of the latter is objectionable, but the ink then dries very quickly. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
The situation therefore required me to appear blandly virtuous and unobjectionable at all times. Times, Sunday Times
We unobjectionable please proceed negotiation as think best.
I don't like your tone young woman, in fact I find it highly objectionable.
Much of the policing so far is unobjectionable in its goals and motivation but barely acceptable in the costs to innocent civilian bystanders.
The new technology also makes genetically modified organisms less objectionable. Times, Sunday Times
In a country where love is objectionable, hatred for sure reigns supreme.
(all that was objectionable was attributed to this poor lady) had been so abominably clear-sighted, so odiously presuming as to have suspected this, his sudden blaze of anger was _foudroyant_. The Marriage of Elinor
Reporting objectionable contents or activities has nothing to do with being a "tattletale" or "stoolpigeon", contrary to what is sometimes discussed in forums. XING Blog » English
That would have been mushy but unobjectionable.
The new forms of state intervention into our private lives are seen as unobjectionable by many commentators and intellectuals; indeed, they see them as desirable.
Other typical questions, and appropriate unobjectionable neutral answers, include: What magazines and newspapers do you subscribe to or read regularly?
a vulgar and objectionable person
But this is all pretty casuistic: We move from case to case without direct consideration of what the objectionable features of adultery are. Porndultery
found the politician's views objectionable
It is in cases of this latter kind of stricture that experience has demonstrated the necessity of opening the sac (a proceeding otherwise not only needless, but objectionable) and dividing its constricted neck. Surgical Anatomy
Open partisans showing open partisanship is much less objectionable than quiet partisans hiding behind objectivity. Who should Obama campaign for next? | RedState
Device can spill water; install where spillage is not objectionable.
The consolation here is that the garden is clean and unobjectionable, requiring no more than grass cutting from Graham and general weeding and pruning from me.
Next to your lordly wall, in dignity of enclosure, comes your close-set wooden paling, which is more objectionable, because it commonly means enclosure on a larger scale than people want. The Two Paths
Post racist, incendiary, or otherwise objectionable content.
It is actually feasible to inspect every term in a nomenclature, looking for eponyms or other objectionable concepts.
Unlike patent, it does not purport to draw bright lines around ideas but proscribes what is, by consensus, objectionable behavior.
Dare I ask what it is you find most objectionable about this socialist paradise?
He wrote back saying he loved the song and found nothing objectionable in it.
It was obviously objectionable to some American Jews, and it is not surprising that they played an enthusiastic part in undermining it; but they were not the sole, nor even the prime, movers in its downfall.
Everything that has been done in any other athenaeum, I confidently expect to see done here; and when that shall be the case, and when there shall be great cheap schools in connexion with the institution, and when it has bound together for ever all its friends, and brought over to itself all those who look upon it as an objectionable institution, — then, and not till then, I hope the young men of Speeches: Literary and Social
Such disregard for consistency might be less objectionable if we were getting good writing in its place. The Times Literary Supplement
First, the provision will "diminish the potential for blocking of top level domain strings considered objectionable by governments, which harms the architecture of the DNS and undermines the goal of universal resolvability. Ars Technica
Structural regulation, not involving direct control of speech but intended to make sure that the market works well, is also unobjectionable.
We act on behalf of very high-profile clients who would, I consider, find a lap-dancing club deeply objectionable and offensive.
Without that democracy, my vote will be no, even if I have to share that vote with some of the most objectionable people possible.
Compared to some of the other models on this list, Sharethrough is relatively unobjectionable, because it doesn't pay users directly or manipulate play counts, the way some bands did on MySpace.
I have been conservant of the work of a minister who, about a year since, after examining carefully all the books in the Sunday-school library of his church, and after taking out such volumes as he considered particularly objectionable and adding others which he knew to be good, set himself the task of talking with the children of his school about their reading. Library Work with Children
With this easy-to-use device, not available in stores, you can repackage an unobjectionable or toadying remark as an act of verbal courage.
In the general, abstract sense of becoming similar—that is, in respects that have to be specified—assimilation does not seem to be morally objectionable.
The practice of clear felling old-growth forests is deeply objectionable to a large percentage of the Tasmanian population.
What if I don't really like your site or I think there is objectionable material on it?
Deeper or darker regrowth is no longer objectionable; it now looks smart and deliberate. Louis Licari: Show Your True Color
It's the banality, rather than the misogyny, which is objectionable.
I am glad that I added Jack's blog to my list of unobjectionable content (check out his recent post on anthrax).
Aidwa says this is objectionable because it projects a daughter as a liability and a son as an investment.
They meet some Prussian crimps, and escape them by help of a coxcombical but not wholly objectionable Austrian Count Hoditz and the better (Prussian) Trenck. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Unlike many of his West German colleagues, he sees nothing objectionable in making connections, letting his imagination play with themes and ideas from other sources.
Of course, upholding the right to be offensive does not mean allowing objectionable views to go unchallenged, on some spineless basis that everybody is entitled to his opinion.
I don't like your tone young woman, in fact I find it highly objectionable.
While the day-to-day coverage of the campaign was unobjectionable, no newspaper conducted a serious investigation into Bloomberg's history.
We unobjectionable please proceed negotiation as think best.
While there is nothing objectionable about such sponsorship, it hardly qualifies as community involvement.
In so dark a rendering of 'opera buffa' you will certainly find something objectionable. Times, Sunday Times
Are their tears less objective and more objectionable than your rancour?
When these feelings are free from national arrogance and conceit and imperial ambitions, there is nothing wrong or objectionable about them.
In more recent years as well, the (politically unobjectionable) issue of volunteerism has been a popular focus. Times, Sunday Times
And the unglamorous, unobjectionable truth is that we don't experience film history in order. The Times Literary Supplement
The addition of alcohol to the bichromate bath — sometimes recommended to harden the film and allow it to stand a higher temperature, and to hasten the desiccation of the tissue — is objectionable, for the spirits tend to reduce the bichromate, which is transformed into the green salt, and, therefore, a partial or complete insolubilization of the gelatine is the result. Photographic Reproduction Processes
But it is a mistake to think that racial or sex discrimination is morally objectionable because of the biological fixity or unchosen nature of race and sex.
Concerted action among the licensed victuallers themselves affords the most reasonable prospect of breaking down the objectionable practice, and many of them at their meeting a week ago showed a willingness to consent.
The publisher says that they believe this beheaded orc is the objectionable content in question," Doctorow wrote on BoingBoing. Slash Print | Following the digital evolution | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Device can spill water; install where spillage is not objectionable.
But when crossing is practiced injudiciously and indiscriminately, and especially when so done for the purpose of procuring _breeding animals_, it cannot be too severely censured, and is scarcely less objectionable than careless in-and-in breeding. The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals
I don't like your tone young woman, in fact I find it highly objectionable.
Thirdly I would like to see individual performers granted a ‘moral right’ in their performance that is unassignable and shall last for 95 years; this will be in order to prevent objectionable uses of their material. B2fxxx
It is telling that Bunting bundles the two issues together as if they were in some sense equivalent and equally objectionable.
And the pledges were largely of the motherhood and apple pie kind-wholesome, sensible and entirely unobjectionable.
Mostly it is a thankless and objectionable undertaking, but in this instance it was delightful, and we three spent a kind of antenuptial honeymoon that was an experience to be appreciated with a warm glow by one whom the world has all gone by. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
He said that if I assented to this arrangement, he would require all of his people except the objectionable man to run to the right of his line at a preconcerted signal. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
Possibly, but I could imagine a climate of opinion developing in which it might come to be seen as unobjectionable in either case given unforeseen events.
Consequently the woman got married and died, and her husband having proved objectionable was evicted and the grogshop extinguished. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
The strong, fishy smell of these materials may be objectionable.
The first change concerned the distribution of powers between the members of the commission and is unobjectionable if the proper procedure had been followed.
The new technology also makes genetically modified organisms less objectionable. Times, Sunday Times
As a woman I find it objectionable. Times, Sunday Times
What exactly was “false” rather than just imbalanced, selective, insinuative, and otherwise objectionable? The Volokh Conspiracy » Explaining Brodhead
No one seems to find profiling objectionable here, despite its bad name in the press.
The council tax will retain the most objectionable parts of the poll tax - the head count tax on the individual.
Bush got what he wanted - a Supreme Court nominee too unobjectionable to be filibustered.
Eyre thought he was hemmed in by a circular or horse-shoe-shaped salt depression, which he called Lake Torrens; because, wherever he tried to push northwards, north-westwards, eastwards, or north-eastwards, he invariably came upon the shores of one of these objectionable and impassable features. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
Particularity objectionable to Judge Hand was the fact that the ‘details of the sex relations are set forth to attract readers to the story because of their salacious character’.
Last November, he publicly outlined a list of changes he said would make the amendment less objectionable.
I wonder what the revolting students find objectionable about that.
I don't know what things are like in O'Dowd's world, but normal people don't "denounce" their friends and pastors when they say something objectionable. Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke, Says Obama "Used Race Where It Suited Him"
Although Ella found the term objectionable, she was eager to know more. Rainwater
Though this displays the conservative side to Scottish nationalism, it is not objectionable to the Catholic hierarchy who can co-exist with the market, monarchism and militarism.
And her choice of leopard print is objectionable on every possible count of taste.
A stream of complaints to Bloomsbury House led to the sacking of the more objectionable roughnecks.
There's nothing morally objectionable about this, but stories like the first one, "You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You," a coming-of-age vignette similar to Joyce's "Araby," but much less accomplished, or "In Football Season," an equally slight reminiscence of high school football games, are perhaps interesting enough to read in charting the development of John Updike's career but surely won't stand the test of time as short stories. Updike, John
For a publication to be objectionable, it must deal with matters such as sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or violence in such a manner that the availability of a publication is likely to be injurious to the public good.
Now my friend the parson is the outgrowth of the New England theocracy, about the simplest, purest, and least objectionable state of society that the world ever saw. Oldtown Folks
The letter was printed under a clever headline I still don't understand, so I thought I'd better explain here why I find the term objectionable North Coast Journal Comments
The addition of alcohol to the bichromate bath — sometimes recommended to harden the film and allow it to stand a higher temperature, and to hasten the desiccation of the tissue — is objectionable, for the spirits tend to reduce the bichromate, which is transformed into the green salt, and, therefore, a partial or complete insolubilization of the gelatine is the result. Photographic Reproduction Processes
One of the few rational things I have met with, Eleanor, in the works of your very objectionable pet Mr. Carlyle -- though indeed his style is too intolerable to have allowed me to read much -- is the remark that 'speech is silver' -- 'silvern' he calls it, pedantically -- 'while silence is golden.' Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
If everything that someone found objectionable was omitted from the news, we would have no news at all. Palin calls news org 'heartless and selfish'
Most of the report is unobjectionable. Times, Sunday Times
And again: "Hadst thou not had a villain's heart, thou shouldst have gained my consent, then made this match, instead of hiding it from those who loved thee" -- a sentiment which would seem to us astounding and inexplicable had we not became familiar with it in the preceding pages relating to savages and barbarians, by whom what we call infidelity was considered unobjectionable, provided it was not done secretly. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Evidently, the term wingnut is so familiar as to be unobjectionable, and, perhaps in this context attacks exaggerated out of all credibility, at least by non-Bork standards it is, but the generally overbroad application of that term makes it problematic. The Volokh Conspiracy » WaPo on Tom Goldstein and ScotusBlog:
unobjectionable behavior
I don't like your tone young woman, in fact I find it highly objectionable.
It may be ethically objectionable to vivisect animals, or pursue profits at the expense of nature and community, but it is usually legal.
Concerted action among the licensed victuallers themselves affords the most reasonable prospect of breaking down the objectionable practice, and many of them at their meeting a week ago showed a willingness to consent.
I haven't read it, but glancing through it, there are some pretty objectionable statements.
Such moves carry the potential for a ‘dangerous, objectionable and foolish response’ from China, he said.
Last November, he publicly outlined a list of changes he said would make the amendment less objectionable.
By "clavicular" breathing some mean upper chest breathing, and others a form of respiration in which the shoulders (clavicles, or key-bones) are raised with inspiration in an objectionable manner. Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
Not only is it objectionable but it is also patently ridiculous.
Paternalism, whether libertarian or iron-fisted, is what is objectionable — at least to people that expect to be treated as adults. The Volokh Conspiracy » Richard Thaler Responds to Critics of Libertarian Paternalism
the ends are unobjectionable; it's the means that one can't accept
But we should not conclude from this that they are therefore intrinsically objectionable and unworkable.
A disfigurement is severe if a reasonable person viewing the plaintiff's face in its altered state would regard the condition as abhorrently distressing, highly objectionable, shocking or extremely unsightly. NY Court of Appeals
Siditty has tweeted us to say 'It is racist and objectionable, it pushes a belief that lighter equals better and embraces the concept of colourism' BBC World Have Your Say
The fight business has a history of peddling much more objectionable travesties. Times, Sunday Times
But the market's freedom gives veterinarians leeway in pricing, which some pet owners find objectionable.
In quality, it cannot be considered equal to some of the shrivelled-kernelled, sweet descriptions, but will prove acceptable to those to whom the peculiar, sugary character of these may be objectionable. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
She's trying to sound as objectionable as possible, surely; that's the only explanation.
So, to recap - Clayton finds punitive damages unobjectionable on moral grounds, but dislikes the natural procedural workings of the system that's necessary for cases to be brought under the adversarial system.
a vulgar and objectionable person
I first read Franny and Zooey in my late 40's -- and was astonished at how fresh it seemed ... enchanting, in the best sense of that word -- and it was precisely what Kirsch finds objectionable (what a sad stuffy old fusspot!) -- a marvelous sense of the everyday ... the everyday as marvelous, as a child might discover it. Gratuitous
Put that way, it sounds unobjectionable. Times, Sunday Times
Some of these comments, however, I find offensive or otherwise objectionable.
Political and journalistic combatants who knew each other socially usually restrained themselves from the kind of scabrous public attack Americans now find so objectionable. Where The Elite Met
This process prevents entirely the circulation of blacklead in the air, which has heretofore been so objectionable in the process of electrotyping. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
The biopsychosocial model, as this something-for-everyone approach came to be known, seems as obvious and unobjectionable as any other ecumenical view. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
In some cases, like eligibility for social welfare payments, the targets can be identified fairly objectively by income testing and the process is unobjectionable.
I wonder what the revolting students find objectionable about that.
It is made all the more objectionable by virtue of the fact that it offends not only the sense of hearing, but the sense of sight also.
The current rash of raids and busts on bars that showcase objectionable entertainment is making some of our tourists itch.
While these difficulties persist for inclinationist and derivationist accounts of knowledge of the basic goods, they may well be eased if one affirms both accounts: one might be able to use inclinationist knowledge to provide some basis for bridge principles between knowledge of human nature and knowledge of human goods, and one might be able to use derivationist knowledge to modify, in a non-ad-hoc way, the objectionable elements of the account that one might be bound to give if proceeding on an inclinationist basis alone. The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics
Capsules or gelcaps of undecylenic acid should not be opened and mixed with food or drink as the taste and odor is objectionable and it may also be irritating to mucous membranes.
Many people rather enjoy the sight of wind farms, while nuclear power stations are fairly unobjectionable and localised. Times, Sunday Times
For we would give much to use violent thefts," which is objectionable, not merely because it wanders from the text, but because it inserts a phrase, "to _use_ violent thefts," which is awkward and unlike Shakspeare. Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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