noisome
IPA: nˈɔɪzoʊm
adjective
- (literary) Morally hurtful or noxious.
- (literary) Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
- (literary) Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell.
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Examples of "noisome" in Sentences
- It banished the noisome weeds of grosser birth.
- Leiden was also an industrial town, noisome and crowded.
- Somebody please kill this noisome absurdity with a stick.
- His senses had not been assailed by any noisome effluvia.
- Here's several more toilets, feeding their noisome output into Parliament.
- The poor, are not only driven to unhealthy, but also to noisome, dwellings.
- Deep red scars, crisscrossed with heavy, unhealed, blue rimmed cuts, feverish and noisome.
- Noisome legislative deals, heretofore blanketed by respectability, were laid bare in exposed horror.
- It was indescribably strong and noisome, and more than once they were almost compelled to cease their work.
- Meanwhile, the allies awaited reinforcements and supplies in the noisome swamps, dying meantime by thousands of fever.
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