How to Use objectionable in a Sentence

objectionable

adjective

• But an objectionable war is not the same as a war crime.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
• The two districts, in the Salt Lake City area, have led the push to remove books deemed objectionable.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The rape scene isn’t the only one that Trump may find objectionable.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 May 2024
• In a show that’s objectionable for so many reasons, this may be the biggest sin of all.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
• But some of what the panel found objectionable wouldn’t fit the antitrust laws’ mold.
  — David McLaughlin, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2020
• There was no follow-up on the due diligence, or what made the speaker objectionable in the first place.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2022
• The board ordered objectionable books be pulled from the library shelves.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
• What is objectionable is doing this when one is a guest.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• At the event in Nantes, people appeared ready to discount the things that might be deemed most objectionable about Zemmour.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• Arguably, this would not be ‘breaking the laws of physics’ in an objectionable Cartesian way.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2013
• Take for an instance, the case of viral objectionable videos.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 21 July 2019
• What is most objectionable is the disposition of the buildings in the master plan.
  — Dallas News, 12 May 2022
• Aside from overtly objectionable content, the trailer suggests this film will be lighter than the murky flick that that kicked off the franchise in 2016.
  — al, 26 Mar. 2021
• McCown is hardly the only objectionable name in the bird world.
  — Zachary Lewis, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2020
• For the courts to keep their citizens out of a large section of the public sphere just because a tiny bit of it is objectionable is asinine.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2007
• So McCarthy’s path to the speaker’s chair may end up being the least objectionable option.
  — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• The only thing truly objectionable about this sandwich was the bun.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• This effort is to change that because there are concerns that a lot of these folks that these birds are named after have objectionable paths.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2023
• In some cases, objectionable films have been phased out.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Why choose a vague word as the smug shorthand for something morally objectionable?
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• In the wake of the chaos at Twitter in recent weeks, there has been talk of brands quitting the platform out of concern that their ads could end up next to objectionable content.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
• To those for whom Russell was a real person, the Sky King treatment is objectionable.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• Ralph Gomes explained that while objectionable depictions are a slap in the face today, there was a time when they were seen as normal.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
• Still, apart from the doxing, these forms of discourse might have made John Stuart Mill proud: objectionable speech answered with more speech.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
• So, the objectionable views that Lind expressed to Field and Griffiths didn’t foreclose the evolution of her views on slavery.
  — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020
• Though attractive, the flowers have an objectionable odor likened to dead fish.
  — D.j. Scully, Cincinnati.com, 15 May 2017
• Some media, of course, may be objectionable for certain age groups.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• That means that a single objectionable candidate could sink the slate.
  — A.a., The Economist, 13 Sep. 2019
• The disconnect may have to do with a lack of knowledge among Italians about the more objectionable aspects of Columbus’s life and legacy.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2020
• And for the audience to watch me and kind of enjoy me as this objectionable character with the worst kind of chauvinistic, un-PC, medieval views, then the movie has to judge Paddy.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024