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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, smelly, stinking |
| Derivation | noisomeness |
Examples of noisome
noisome
Few of his class, he cautions, share his tolerance for the noisome hoi polloi.
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The woman may have had a few too many drinks, but her intoxication was not noisome.
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Aspirin's most familiar benefits come from interfering with these noisome processes.
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Why is this noisome instrument of the eternally tiresome even offered?
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Noisome means offensive or even disgusting, so it can be applied to, say, odors as well.
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And then, there are all those noisome Evangelicals, who cleave to no Pope in particular.
From the economist.com
Last week the noisome style of DMS culminated in the imprisonment of an activist minister.
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Several found the coverage so noisome that they temporarily moved out.
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Nearly 100,000 tons of uncollected garbage lay in noisome heaps on sidewalks and in doorways.
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- Nauseating: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
- Fetid: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
- (noisomeness) harmfulness: the quality of being noxious
- Morally hurtful or noxious; Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious; Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous; foul, fetid, especially having an undesirable smell; sickening, nauseating
- Harmful, noxious, ill-smelling, disgusting.
- Offensive to the smell or other senses
- Bags of night - smelly and disgusting
- (adj) - disgusting; pestilential
