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Meanings of noisome in English
Causing or able to cause nausea.
Related terms
Offensively malodorous.
Related terms
Usage of noisome in English
1
I destroyed the noisome thing and cast it into the waste-paper basket.
2
The heat was intolerably oppressive, and the air tainted with noisome exhalations.
3
This was now a noisome muddy carpet some two inches in thickness.
4
The galley was a rackety, noisome trading-ship that plied along the coast.
5
Overspread with bones and hair, it was noisome with worms and insects.
6
He is seldom handsome and often noisome, always troublesome and never welcome.
7
Such pleasures need not to be curbed as though they were noisome.
8
Lentulus was hurried into this noisome den, where the executioners strangled him.
9
Half-tipsy men and noisome, naked urchins seemed to have sprung from everywhere.
10
Celeste, it may be stated, viewed Baxter rather like a noisome insect.
11
Then he rushed through the noisome smoke to his lord's side, crying:
12
He waded through the noisome excremental stew towards the other little shelf.
13
Are we surprised that God permitted him to quench the noisome spark?
14
She cried out, vainly trying to wipe the clinging, noisome stuff away.
15
Everywhere that noisome smell accompanied his footsteps; the place was reeking with it.
16
The bad air, and the noisome room which I was in, contributed hereto.
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United Kingdom
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