(a.) Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.
Example Sentences:
(1) A branch of the Labour party of Malaysia was censured for staging a concert at which "two objectionable songs were sung in spite of the fact that the police had registered their disapproval".
(2) GMP problems associated with microbiological environmental monitoring are among those most commonly cited as objectionable during FDA inspections of parenteral drug manufacturing facilities.
(3) The use of clear plastic suction curette is objectionable because the operator can see the embryonic parts and sac as it passes through the tube.
(4) Yates was challenged by Mark Reckless MP to explain why he was willing to use public money to pay for lawyers to threaten newspapers whose reports he found objectionable, while victims of the hacking affair had had to spend large amounts of their own money to take civil actions to uncover the truth about crimes committed against them.
(5) In these cases there has been evidence of large sums of cash, the possession of objectionable material and other indicators for border force officers to take the action they have taken on these occasions.” Earlier in the week the Labor opposition questioned the government’s handling of national security, pointing to two separate cases of people leaving Australia on their brothers’ passports, including the convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf in December.
(6) Some time ago it promised to make illegal the objectionable practice of restaurants paying their staff less than the minimum wage and using their tips to make up the difference.
(7) There is much that is deeply objectionable about this.
(8) The use of SVV reduces the rate of the most objectionable of the common adverse effects of influenza vaccination.
(9) No serious adverse reactions occurred, but objectionable taste, constipation, and nausea were seen more frequently with active medication (P = 0.04).
(10) He’s just one man, made objectionable by never being questioned.
(11) Natural water suitable for direct bottling must be clear, colourless, and free from objectionable taste and odour.
(12) It may be difficult to believe but Morgan wasn't always quite so objectionable.
(13) So high a vegetable contamination is due to objectionable location of the "Podzamcze" employees' plots of gardens in Szczytna, related to the close vicinity of the "Sudety" Glassworks, wind rose and traffic arteries.
(14) Discrimination against HIV-infected persons is objectionable for moral reasons and may be counterproductive to public health.
(15) Sporicidin at this concentration appears to demonstrate efficacy as an antimicrobial agent, but dermal irritation, sensitivity and yellowing of the skin, and its objectionable odor may preclude its routine clinical use.
(16) The K for eye contact was .84; refusal , .85; leaving the situation, 1.0; and specifying objectionable behavior, .90.
(17) Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not know (ordinarily) what it is.
(18) He classified material likely to affect patients adversely as puzzling or unintelligible, alarming, apparently insulting or objectionable, or sensitive information from or about others.
(19) It constitutes highly objectionable and unethical behaviour."
(20) The objectionable features of Etomidate are high incidence of pain on injection and involuntary muscular activity, which account for the low anaesthetist acceptance rate.
Obnoxious
Definition:
(a.) Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
(a.) Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
(a.) Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) They occupy that weird middle ground between anonymity and celebrity; they're from well-regarded restaurants, but they're not at the level where, say, James Martin can be obnoxious at them on Saturday Kitchen.
(2) Only in recent years has serious attention been given to the control of chemotherapy-induced emesis (CIE) which is to the patient a most obnoxious side-effect.
(3) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(4) This paper describes examples of adolescent behavior which parents and school personnel find obnoxious.
(5) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(6) The interview, broadcast on 1 October, and the BBC's decision to invite the party's leader, Nick Griffin, on to Question Time next week indicated the BBC was "sadly succumbing" to those who "in Griffin's obnoxious words, 'defend rights for whites with well-directed boots and fists'," he adds.
(7) Perhaps it was because, despite being the first portable music player, it wasn't as easy to lug around as the MP3 player; its chunky dimensions compelled it to be worn clipped to a belt, creating the danger that it would unclip itself – which it did with obnoxious regularity – and crash to the ground, disgorging its batteries.
(8) If Mitchell may seem a little rebarbative to some tastes, he would have to try hard to be more obnoxious than John Tully, who has demanded his resignation .
(9) Echoing one of his most famous early speeches, Bin Laden told “brothers ... in the Islamic Maghreb” their job was “to uproot the obnoxious tree by concentrating on its American trunk”, and to avoid being occupied with the local security forces.
(10) Instead, the BBC is sadly succumbing to those who would, again in Nick Griffin's obnoxious words, "defend rights for whites with well-directed boots and fists".
(11) The unspoken rule is that pedestrians and bikes give way to cars even at a zebra crossing – which is obnoxious, not to mention dangerous.
(12) I think that we would make more progress if, instead of complaining about sexualisation – a divisive and nebulous concept – we fought sexism, which is more easily comprehended and is at the root of almost everything troubling and obnoxious.
(13) The only free expression worth anything in a democracy is the right for the person whose views one regards as most obnoxious to be heard.
(14) His personality is obnoxious and he should not be feted as a role model for young people.” The protest will be at the SSE Arena between 5.30pm to 7pm, organisers said.
(15) It seemed particularly obnoxious for him to have used a homophobic slur while starring in a play about the vexed, affectionate and mutually dependent relationship between two men.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Of course their unspeakably obnoxious stage manner was not to everybody’s taste.
(17) Dunkin' Donuts was cutting hot chocolate, while Starbucks obnoxiously announced it would not bother to comply for months at least.
(18) Snoring is a common obnoxious disturbance in human society.
(19) RMT is in consultation with our taxi members over the possibility of a boycott of this obnoxious and abusive character.” An RMT spokesman said it was a matter for LBC to decide whether to continue to employ Mellor as a presenter, but added: “If he’s supposed to be presenting a balanced debate there’s a question about whether he is a fit person to present the programme.” LBC had no immediate comment.
(20) "There is a lot of energy and it's brilliant to be part of it because I know that back in the day I would have dragged myself through this and been as loud as hell, smoking two cigarettes at once and being really obnoxious.