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/ɑbˈdʒɛktɪvɫi/
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[ UK /ɒbdʒˈɛktɪvli/ ]
[ UK /ɒbdʒˈɛktɪvli/ ]
ADVERB
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with objectivity
we must look at the facts objectively
How To Use objectively In A Sentence
- Objectively, a calumny is a mortal sin when it is calculated to do serious harm to the person so traduced. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- Similarly, although nobody wants to be called a prude, one could hardly deny that being offended by non-abstinence sex education, pre-marital sex, and homosexuality is objectively anti-sex (that is to say: unmarried, non-heterosexual, and/or kinky sex). Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
- Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
- Try to view situations more objectively, especially with regard to work.
- Standard economic argument: as long as quality is objectively ascertainable from use, the market will correct for any distortions, and more generally, if people are willing to pay more, that subjective utility is an unarguable economic value. Archive 2009-03-01
- Stand back and look objectively at the problem.
- Try to view the situation objectively.
- Conscious through close observation of nature of changing patterns in the landscape, especially at sunrise and sunset, he found a beauty that was atmospheric and objectively perceived as well as poetic and idealized.
- Objectively, the plot is slight, but wrapped up in the details there lurks an epic tale.
- Your role as editor is important, for you can look at a piece of writing objectively.