objections
Voiced opposition points
Objections are reasons given for disagreeing with or opposing something.
A lawyer raises objections in court to challenge evidence or procedure.
In sales, objections are concerns a customer voices before buying: Let me address your objections one by one.
To have no objection is to consent or not mind: I have no objection to your plan.
Absence of shared opinion
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- discordLack of agreement
dispute · contention · controversy · dissension · nonconformity · contradiction · conflict · discontent
Point challenging another's position
- refutationDisproving a statement
- responseAnswer to stimulus
- retortQuick, cutting reply
- rejoinderReply to a reply
comeback · riposte · defense · counterclaim · answer · reply · confutation · disproof
Internal moral sense
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- scruplesMoral reservations about acting
- reservationsDoubts or advance bookings
qualms · misgivings · compunctions · concerns · reluctance · unease · hesitation · disapproval
Rejected by higher authority
- sustainedKept up continuously
- hearsayUnverified secondhand information
- inadmissibleNot allowed as evidence
- relevanceState of mattering here
sidebar · cross-examination · testimony · evidence · motion · prosecution · defense · pleadings
disagreement
Absence of shared opinion
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
discord · dispute · contention · controversy · dissension · nonconformity · contradiction · conflict · discontent · disapproval
counterargument
Point challenging another's position
- refutationDisproving a statement
- responseAnswer to stimulus
- retortQuick, cutting reply
rejoinder · comeback · riposte · defense · counterclaim · answer · reply · confutation · disproof · challenge
conscience
Internal moral sense
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- scruplesMoral reservations about acting
reservations · qualms · misgivings · compunctions · concerns · reluctance · unease · hesitation · disapproval · conscientiousness
overruled
Rejected by higher authority
- sustainedKept up continuously
- hearsayUnverified secondhand information
- inadmissibleNot allowed as evidence
relevance · sidebar · cross-examination · testimony · evidence · motion · prosecution · defense · pleadings · precedent
complaint
Expression of discontent
- grievanceFormal claim of unfairness
- formalFollowing strict protocol
- filingStoring documents systematically
written · grounds · basis · validity · raising · lodging · overcoming · addressing · handling · dismissing
- lawyer taskslitigation, advocacy, cross-examination, depositions, legal research
- trial proceedingsopening statements, closing arguments, cross-examination, sustained, overruled
- court proceduresbail hearings, civil procedure, bench trials, criminal procedure, jury instructions
- UN AssemblyGeneral Assembly, resolutions, delegates, delegations, member states
- complaintscomplaint, complain, complaints, complaint form, complaint letter
- Legal TVtrials, verdicts, testimony, evidence, cross-examination
objectionsagreements
Formal mutual arrangements
approvals · endorsements · acceptances · affirmations · sanctions
objectionscompliance
Adhering to requirements
acquiescences · acquiescence · submissions · submission · capitulations
objectionssupport
To uphold or sustain
advocacy · backing · championing · promotion · encouragement
- moral objectionEthics-based opposition
- no objection
- minor objectionSmall complaint, easily dismissed
- conscientious objectionMoral refusal to fight
- raising objections
- petty objections