objectionable

adjective

ob·​jec·​tion·​able əb-ˈjek-sh(ə-)nə-bəl How to pronounce objectionable (audio)
objectionableness noun
objectionably adverb

Examples of objectionable in a Sentence

a T-shirt with an objectionable image
Recent Examples on the Web As civil libertarians have said, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech. Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024 Should the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act become law, there’s no reason to believe that only those views that liberals find most objectionable will be targeted. Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024 This section includes posters with strong language that some viewers may find objectionable, organizers acknowledge. Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024 By then, India was well practiced in blocking objectionable websites and even shutting down mobile data across whole regions, in the name of maintaining public order. Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 For example, with Pushkin, what proportion of his work is objectionable Russian nationalist poetry? Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024 That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2024 It was cowritten by several organizers for No Tech for Apartheid, a campaign group calling for an end to Project Nimbus—a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract of Israel’s government with Google and Amazon announced in 2021—and any other objectionable contracts. Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024 In some cases, objectionable films have been phased out. Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024

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Word History

Etymology

objection + -able

First Known Use

1741, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of objectionable was in 1741

Dictionary Entries Near objectionable

Cite this Entry

“Objectionable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objectionable. Accessed 20 May. 2024.

Kids Definition

objectionable

adjective
ob·​jec·​tion·​able əb-ˈjek-sh(ə-)nə-bəl How to pronounce objectionable (audio)
: arousing objection : offensive
uses objectionable language
objectionably adverb

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