Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1793, from un- (1) "not" + objectionable (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. Not objectionable; not capable of raising an objection.
WordNet
adj. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke" [syn: clean] [ant: dirty]
not causing disapproval; "it was an innocuous remark"; "confined himself to innocuous generalities"; "unobjectionable behavior" [syn: innocuous]
not objectionable; "the ends are unobjectionable; it's the means that one can't accept"
Usage examples of "unobjectionable".
Kansas shall, by means entirely unobjectionable in all other respects, adopt a State constitution, and ask admission into the Union under it, before they have the requisite number of inhabitants according to the English bill,--some ninety-three thousand,--will you vote to admit them?
I know of none which promises so certain results and is at the same time so unobjectionable as the organization of banking associations, under a general act of Congress, well guarded in its provisions.
His impulse was now simply to prove to her that he was the most unobjectionable fellow in the world-- a proposition which resolved itself into several ingenious observations upon the weather, the music, the charms and the drawbacks of Baden, the merits of the volume that she held in her lap.
Lecture, while its theoretical considerations and negative experiences do not seem to me to require any further notice than such as lay ready for them in my Essay written long before, is, I am pleased to say, unobjectionable in tone and language, and may be read without offence.
Triple lamps of simple, unobjectionable design hung from all four of the pillars framing the chamber.
Once past this difficulty, however, he exhorts his dear friend in the tenderest manner not to be rash, but to do what so eminent a gentleman requires, and to do it with a good grace, confident that it must be unobjectionable as well as profitable.
The class was for English literature, and the proceedings commenced with the reading of a certain lengthy, but otherwise unobjectionable, poem.
She bends over and sees the ghost, small and unobjectionable as a lapdog, lying under her chair.
Arcadian and bucolic ways which are highly unobjectionable, but are not so much admired in cities, where the people are said to be not half so virtuous.
I can think of anything sufficiently boring and therefore unobjectionable to your lordship, I will definitely put it down on the schedule.
After Joseph unpacked, they walked down to the corner for takeaway curry, chatting pleasantly and audibly on unobjectionable topics.
In the looking-glass, her new visage had seemed unobjectionable to her, but how could she be certain that this was not merely wishful thinking?
In short, though vivisection, like slavery, may embrace within its practice what is unobjectionable, what is useful, what is humane, and even what is commendable, it may also cover what is nothing less than hideous.
It would be folly to call him distingué, but he is at least unobjectionable.
I grant you the fellow's a trifle, um, idealistic, and if you've taken against him I won't try to argue his suit--though he seemed perfectly unobjectionable to me--but I saw his letter.