HOH Word of the Week: Personally Obnoxious

By Jason Dick

Posted May 18, 2015 at 5:00am

“Personally Obnoxious (or Objectionable) A characterization a senator sometimes applies to a president’s nominee for a federal office in that senator’s state to justify his or her opposition to the nomination.”

— From “American Congressional Dictionary” by Walter Kravitz.

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