Obnoxious

Word OBNOXIOUS
Character 9
Hyphenation ob nox ious
Pronunciations /əbˈnɒkʃəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Obnoxious"

What do we mean by obnoxious?

Very annoying or objectionable; offensive or odious. adjective

Exposed or subject to harm, injury, or evil. adjective

Deserving of or liable to censure. adjective

Liable: subject; exposed, as to harm, injury, or punishment: generally with to: as, obnoxious to blame or to criticism.

Justly liable to punishment; hence, guilty; reprehensible; censurable.

Offensive; odious; hateful.

In law, vulnerable; amenable: with to: as, an indefinite allegation in pleading is obnoxious to a motion, but not generally to a demurrer.

Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. adjective

Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy. adjective

Very offensive; odious; hateful adjective

Very annoying, offensive, odious or contemptible. adjective

Exposed to harm or injury. adjective

Causing disapproval or protest adjective

Extremely unpleasant or offensive; very annoying, odious or contemptible.

Exposing to harm or injury.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Obnoxious

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The word "obnoxious" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ By JANET MASLIN (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I suppose in Britain being obnoxious is still against the law, unlike the US. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All these years of decay and degeneration finally culminated to a terrible end when Francis Hope became bankrupt by engaging in obnoxious activities such as gambling and his family is said to have died from extreme poverty. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sometimes I even promoted the gay image so that certain obnoxious males would leave me alone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Before she goes to world competitions she gets wired and she gets plain obnoxious," she says. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Do people who drown themselves in obnoxious perfume or cologne even breathe oxygen? ❋ Unknown (2005)

They have taken a list of all those who they suppose were concernd in watching the tea, and every other person who they call obnoxious, and they and their Effects are to suffer distruction. ❋ Unknown (1963)

"nationalism" in this country as to regret that Bourassa made the word obnoxious, he has surely decided that the policy of the N.P.P. must be to build up a true national life in Canada. ❋ Domino (N/A)

They’ve gone from being too cautious, content with the status quo, to too old-fashioned, playing to markets that haven’t existed for a decade or two, to just plain obnoxious, uncaring of what partners they annoy out of their own incompetence and duplicitousness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mamacita, OK, so, I have to admit I’ve never been to Ginger Man, but that’s because it looks huge and obnoxious from the outside. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Those are the times when Sasha isn't witty; she's just plain obnoxious. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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