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Examples of objectionable in a Sentence
a T-shirt with an objectionable image
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This section includes posters with strong language that some viewers may find objectionable, organizers acknowledge.
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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
The question is whether states like Florida and Texas can force big social media platforms to carry content the platforms find hateful or objectionable.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
This, in turn, increases someone’s perception of how morally objectionable that behavior is.
—Keelah Williams, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2024
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
The question is whether states like Florida and Texas can force big social media platforms to carry content the platforms find hateful or objectionable.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
This, in turn, increases someone’s perception of how morally objectionable that behavior is.
—Keelah Williams, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2024
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First Known Use
1741, in the meaning defined above
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objectionable
adjective
ob·jec·tion·able
əb-ˈjek-sh(ə-)nə-bəl 
: arousing objection : offensive
uses objectionable language
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