OBJECTIONABLENESS Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

objectionableness

noun

as in undesirability

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Noun

The undesirability of the undead state is inherent in the term itself.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
There are hyper-local gags about the Williamsburg bar Union Pool and the undesirability of living in the Financial District, and a creature known as Rat Pizza — like Pizza Rat in reverse.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026

Definition of undesirability

Noun

The movie is essentially an old-fashioned story of one lad’s sentimental education, spiced up with NSFW perversity.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2026
This week, at the men’s Summer 2027 Saint Laurent show in Paris, creative director Anthony Vaccarello showed a collection of quiet perversity disrupted by a starling pair of foot-baring shoes.

— Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 26 June 2026

Definition of perversity

Noun

Miller was bold, having learned of life’s wickedness at an early age.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 25 July 2026
Max Cady should be an unsettling interruption, a man who undermines our ideas of right and wrong through his nonchalance about his own wickedness; here, the most unsettling thing about him are those teal contact lenses.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026

Definition of wickedness

Noun

The leprous, lascivious body was a perversion that Western proselytizing could fix.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
More broadly, this same chain of logic turns the Voting Rights Act into a zombie law, a perversion of its intended purpose that now mostly protects white Americans from any attempts to break their disproportionate control of voting machinery.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026

Definition of perversion

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Every other entry either dwells in its characters’ filth throughout or reveals a new level of depravity as the climactic joke.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2026
If Harper’s voracious hunger for piling on details of Hollywood depravity can seem exploitative, the noir framework suggests another way of looking at it.

— Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of depravity

Noun

There’s a tonal tug-of-war in this movie between naughtiness and aching sincerity.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 18 Aug. 2026
TikTok users responded in droves, with many sharing similar stories of their own dogs becoming trapped in clothing or household items due to their own naughtiness.

— Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of naughtiness

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