Noisome

Word NOISOME
Character 7
Hyphenation noi some
Pronunciations /ˈnɔɪ.səm/

Definitions and meanings of "Noisome"

What do we mean by noisome?

Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul. adjective

Harmful or dangerous. adjective

Hurtful; mischievous; noxious: as, a noisome pestilence.

Offensive to sight or smell, especially to the latter; producing loathing or disgust; disgusting; specifically, ill-smelling.

Disagreeable, in a general sense; extremely offensive.

Synonyms Pernicious, etc. See noxious.

Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive. adjective

Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. adjective

Morally hurtful or noxious. adjective

Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious. adjective

Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous; foul, fetid, especially having an undesirable smell; sickening, nauseating. adjective

Offensively malodorous adjective

Causing or able to cause nausea adjective

Morally hurtful or noxious.

Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.

Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell

A foul smelling thing, like the one who is looking up this definition because some pompous ass called them it and they wanted to know what dumb-witted comment they could make without looking more of a dumbass than usual. Urban Dictionary

A spirit's version of flatulence. Suggests some kind of bio-chemistry in their essence. Urban Dictionary

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The word "noisome" in example sentences

Madden disappeared and presently his "noisome" snores filled the air. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)

The fact clearly was that the wretched sewage of Washington, in those days, which was betrayed in all parts of the hotel by every kind of noisome odor, had at last begun to do its work. ❋ Unknown (1905)

The floor of the cellar was a kind of noisome cesspool: one slipped on the greasy mud -- floundered about in it: for all that, this cellar was almost entirely filled with cases of all kinds, with queer-looking bundles, with objects of various shapes and sizes. ❋ Pierre Souvestre (1894)

With friends like the IRA and a disciplinary system that includes throwing snakes and tarantulas into the beds of women hostages, including Mlle Betancourt, who dared to try to escape, Farc represents the kind of noisome infestation that public benefactors such as General Pinochet used to sanitise so effectively. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like them, I'm delighted that Bobby Quinn remembers that the word "noisome" exists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the late seventeenth century, however, park in English referred to a different kind of enclosure, one catering to humans who sought respite from the noisome distractions of city life. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Tonight, Tinie Tempah proves a genial entertainer; slick without being noisome, pop without being remedial. ❋ Kitty Empire (2010)

English working-class, with numerous evidences of refinement, being slowly engulfed by that noisome and rotten tide of humanity which the powers that be are pouring eastward out of London Town. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I looked upon all these creatures as rank and noisome growths that must be hewn out of my path, out of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With each noisome compartment entered, each scuffed door opened, my depression grew. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two Jerries passed me just as I had got under this noisome mess and fired a short burst into the stall. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Morrell told them what a noisome stews the place was, insulted the ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hold on tight: But what could the Concord sage have known of the news off the boat when that boat was a keelboat or a broadhorn docking at the noisome slum of Natchez-under-the-Hill or New Orleans where some eighty years later a precocious Jelly Roll Morton was learning the street songs that would ultimately scorch the stately décor of the Library of Congress's Coolidge Chamber Music Auditorium when he recorded them for Alan Lomax? ❋ Lee Sandlin (2012)

But seared deepest of all in Bassett's brain, was the dank and noisome jungle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The world would be better off without your noisome brand of christofascism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His blind and aged father, and his gentle sister, lay in a noisome dungeon, while he enjoyed the free air, and the society of her whom he loved. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Conservatives at the time were as timorous and noisome as they are now. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Honestly, you are the most noisome [person I] know. Why don't you [just go] [kill yourself]." ❋ The Kid Behind You (2007)

This is [quite] [unlike] the Noisome Wind, which is created in a [rather] different way. ❋ Kwing (2009)

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