obnoxious
IPA: ɑbnˈɑkʃʌs
adjective
- Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious.
- (of a person) Unjustly disagreeable, argumentative or objectionable; brazenly rude.
- (archaic or obsolete) Exposed or vulnerable to something, especially harm or injury.
- (obsolete)
- Causing harm or injury; harmful, hurtful, injurious.
- Deserving of blame or punishment; blameworthy, guilty.
- Under the authority or power of someone; subject, subordinate; hence, deferential, submissive, subservient.
- Followed by to: likely to do something.
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Examples of "obnoxious" in Sentences
- He is one of the most obnoxious.
- That's obnoxious to say the least.
- He's just being obnoxious and histrionic.
- I've removed the most obnoxious bits from the article.
- As a casual reader, I found it to be obnoxiously prolix.
- He was seen as young and obnoxious, filled with bravado.
- He tends to be one of the most obnoxious members of the gang.
- Gus is the awkward and sometimes obnoxious member of the group.
- He is seen in several occasions to be extremely fussy and obnoxious.
- Detractors have said he was an obnoxious beggar and an offensive grouch.
- I suppose in Britain being obnoxious is still against the law, unlike the US.
- I suppose in Britain being obnoxious is still against the law, unlike the US. But then, they started the whole politeness thing with afternoon tea.
- HUFFTINGTON: Well, the greatest fears have to do with the voices in our heads, what I call the obnoxious roommate living in our head, putting us down every day.
- No, the best way to make PWCs less obnoxious is to put about a teaspoon of beach sand under the sparkplug when the operator returns to the beach for a joint and more beer.
- Ratko Mladic defiantly refused on Friday to enter pleas to what he called "obnoxious" allegations that as the Serb military chief during the Bosnian war he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives.
- Although Mr. Isaacson is not analytical about his subject's volatile personality the word "obnoxious" figures in the book frequently, he raises the question of whether feelings of abandonment in childhood made him fanatically controlling and manipulative as an adult.
- Mladic tells court does not want to enter pleas Ratko Mladic defiantly refused on Friday to enter pleas to what he called "obnoxious" allegations that as the Serb military chief during the Bosnian war he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives.