objectionable

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This, then, he reflected, was the explanation of what Miss Morriston had hinted at, what she had described as his objectionable excess of politeness at their meeting that morning.

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  1. adjective Arousing disapproval; offensive: objectionable behavior.

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  • Particularly objectionable is the charge that the "detractors" distrust politics in the same way as does the "development cult" propagated by Manmohan Singh, which segregates it from politics, considered dirty by the middle class. —  Kafila
  • Much SEO behaviour that non-SEOs find objectionable is a direct result of the SEs —  Search Engine Roundtable
  • I mean, in this case the comment isn't all that objectionable -- the statement about Canadian oil shale is not true -- Canada's oil production comes from conventional crude oil and oil sands, which are a far cry from oil shale which has yet to become a cost-effective source of oil -- but still, I wish he or she had the imagination to think up a handle that doesn't belong to someone else.
  • It's the embryonic research that is objectionable -- including research on aborted fetuses. —  Planet Atheism
  • "So many of these treaties are objectionable, and Law of the Sea is one of them." —  Worldwatch Institute
 

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/əbˈdʒɛkʃənəbl/
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