objectionable person
Example Sentences
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Should a morally objectionable person be allowed to teach?
From Time Magazine Archive
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A man may be an acceptable individual instrument in the service of certain of the arts, even though he be in some other respects a tolerably objectionable person.
From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David
During conference I was evidently regarded as a much more objectionable person than the prisoner;—one giving trouble by coming there voluntarily, which the prisoner could not be accused of doing.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
In a moment of temporary aberration I suggested that the "dragon" might not be, after all, such an objectionable person as she appeared, and that perhaps she could be won over by kindness.
From In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories by Barr, Robert
He seemed to her the ne plus ultra of vulgarity; and now, behold, the artist, the woman she had so admired, was equally familiar with the same objectionable person.
From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles