Word Finder - objectionable

definition

Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.

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Before removing objectionable material, you'll have to decide what will offend people.

Several decisions were particularly objectionable to organized labour.

The proteids should be as far as possible removed during the preparation of the rubber, as these substances are chiefly responsible for the objectionable smell and colour of " native " rubbers, and their presence leads to subsequent change in the commercial material.

The removal or the mitigation of objectionable matter is also occasionally found.

Masonry bridges are preferable in appearance to any others, and metal arch bridges are less objectionable than most forms of girder.

All this speaks of intense hatred alike of Jews and Christians; the fasts, celibacy and monastic and anchoret life of the latter are peculiarly objectionable to the Mandaeans.

This plan is, however, objectionable, as inducing decay in the centre of the trunk.

No one found anything objectionable in this; investiture with a bishopric was parallel with the appointment by a territorial proprietor to a patronal church.

When required for paper making the leaves should be gathered before they are quite matured; if, however, they are obtained too young, they furnish a paper having an objectionable semi-transparent appearance.

Her first business was to plant herself firmly on her own territory, to make good her position and clear away old and objectionable opinions.

The doctrine of the incarnation of God, which was especially objectionable to those who were going over to the new universal religion from the old cults, was not proclaimed by Manichaeism.

The Supreme Court dismissed the bill on the grounds that equity has no jurisdiction over political matters; that, assuming the fraudulent character of the objectionable constitutional provisions, the court was in effect asked to assist in administering a fraud; and that relief "must be given by them {the people of the state} or by the legislative and political departments of the government of the United States."

The result was that in November 1907 a new treaty of cession was presented to the Belgian chambers, while in March 1908 an additional act modified one of the most objectionable features of the treaty - a clause by which the king retained control of the revenue of a vast territory within the Congo which he had declared to be his private property.

To the Liberal and con- ministers, however, and to the Liberal majority in stitutionai the Prussian diet, this was wholly objectionable.

The most objectionable parts of the whole Koran are those which treat of Mahomet's relations with women.

Their performances are often objectionable and are so regarded by many Egyptians.

You can forego the good night kiss, if you find it that objectionable.

She felt confused, suddenly unable to recall why this request was objectionable.

Turning first one way and then the other in front of the mirror, she tried to decide what it was about the dress that Denton found so objectionable.

The original works of Rufinus are - (I) De Adulteratione Librorum Origenis - an appendix to his translation of the Apology of Pamphilus, and intended to show that many of the features in Origen's teaching which were then held to be objectionable arise from interpolations and falsifications of the genuine text; (2) De Benedictionibus XII Patriarcharum Libri II - an exposition of Gen.

Aluminium bronze (aluminium and copper) and ferro-aluminium (aluminium and iron) have been made in this way; the latter is the more satisfactory product, because a certain proportion of carbon is expected in an alloy of this character, as in ferromanganese and cast iron, and its presence is not objectionable.

The convict lease system in its most objectionable form was abolished in 1883, and convicts are now employed on state account or by private contract.

The tariff of 1828 was affected by some political manipulation, which caused it to contain objectionable provisions, and to be dubbed " the tariff of abominations."

Where the inclination of the ground is considerable, and the presence of high walls would be objectionable, the latter may be replaced by sunk walls.

But when so situated it is apt to suffer from the shade of the building, and is objectionable on account of admitting damp to the drawing-room.

In the case of ordinary public meetings those who convene the meeting stand in the position of licensors to those attending and may revoke the licence and expel any person who creates disorder or makes himself otherwise objectionable.

The measure aroused a storm of indignation amongst the European community which finally resulted in the bill being shorn of its most objectionable features.

It is, however, unfortunately but too true that in some of these creeds the devotional ardour has developed features of a highly objectionable character.

A modern offshoot of Vallabha's creed, formed with the avowed object of purging it of its objectionable features, was started, in the early years of the 19th century, by Sahajananda, a Brahman of the Oudh country, who subsequently assumed the name of Svami Narayana.

The great majority of its adherents profess to follow the right-hand practice; and apart from the implied purport and the emblems of the cult, their mode of adoration does not seem to offer any very objectionable features.

A letter written to him by Colonel Lewis Nicola, on behalf of this coterie, detailed the weakness of a republican form of government as they had experienced it, their desire for "mixed government," with him at its head, and their belief that "the title of king" would be objectionable to but few and of material advantage to the country.

Any water much impregnated with lime is also specially objectionable.

At the Boston and Great Falls (Montana) works tilting reverberatories, modelled after open hearth steel furnaces, were first erected; but they were found to possess objectionable features.

The spread of the European house-fly has been deliberately encouraged in New Zealand, as wherever it penetrates the native flesh-fly, a more objectionable pest, disappears.

Frequently this is sufficient; but if the stomach refuses to eject its objectionable contents, we may either give an emetic or wash it out by means of a stomach-pump or siphon.

On this distinction in great measure depends the celebrated " facial angle," measured by Camper as a test of low and high races; but this angle is objectionable as resulting partly from the development of the forehead and partly from the position of the jaws.

The explanation that this influence on the leucocytes explained the favourable action of quinine on certain inflammatory processes no longer holds, since we know that the inflammatory conditions are of microbic origin, and that the movements of the leucocytes are not objectionable, but highly desirable as a means of defence against bacteria and their products.

When of moderate account, however, dues of this sort appear no more objectionable than harbour dues already mentioned, or any other moderate charges on transactions.

The arrangement is obviously objectionable on the score of its conducing to local extravagance, as local authorities are not likely to be so economical with money that comes to them from the outside, as it were, as they would be with money directly taken from their own pockets.

Numerous outlets are also objectionable, from their liability to obstruction.

But if the vice did not appear objectionable the expense did, and a new chapter in the financial history of the government was opened when the Commons, having previously gained control over taxation, proceeded to vindicate their right to control expenditure.

In Walpoles judgment the bill was objectionable because it afforded no reasonable basis for a stable settlement.

The strong political position secured to the French Protestants by the edict of Nantes was very objectionable, not only to the ardent Roman Catholics, but also to more moderate persons, and the payments made to their ministers by the state were viewed with increasing dislike.

A despotism of mere power and liberalism, which naturally produces socialism, are equally objectionable.

These circles will be objectionable when the smallest details are examined.

In an ammonia machine copper and copper alloys must be avoided, but for carbonic acid they are not objectionable.

This naming of portions of plants, however objectionable, is often not to be avoided; for detached organs constantly have to be described long before their relation to other parts is established - which, indeed, may never be accomplished.

The apportionment of representation in the state senate had become almost as objectionable.

This deliberate creation and destruction of human life makes it even more objectionable, in moral terms, than reproductive human cloning.

In an oft quoted dictum he said Probably the most objectionable are found in the complex standard form conditions which are now so common.

Guy Beech is not alone in finding such behavior objectionable.