ob·jec·tion·a·ble

(əb-jĕk′shə-nə-bəl)

adj.

Deserving disapproval; offensive: objectionable behavior.

ob·jec′tion·a·bil′i·ty, ob·jec′tion·a·ble·ness n.

ob·jec′tion·a·bly adv.

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Noun

objectionableness - the quality of being hateful

hatefulness, obnoxiousness

odiousness, offensiveness, distastefulness - the quality of being offensive

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The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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The second study, which utilized undergraduates from colleges with Protestant Christian ties, demonstrated that the six Religiousness-factor items identified in the first study were significantly positively correlated with their true/false response and Likert ratings of religious objectionableness of the item.

An examination of the MMPI-2-RF L-r scale in an outpatient Protestant sample

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