noisome

How To Use noisome In A Sentence

• They saw in it a haven for traditional values that might, in time, restore their idealized America, now overrun by waves of immigration and noisome industrialization.
• Faced with this sort of noisome buffoonery, there is a danger of underreaction. Times, Sunday Times
• Morrell told them what a noisome stews the place was, insulted the Chapter 20
• Like them, I'm delighted that Bobby Quinn remembers that the word "noisome" exists. Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
• Suddenly there are noisome odours on the breeze.
• Past the familiar groups of grave, white-robed men solemnly washing themselves, then scooping up and drinking the noisome fluid; past their ladies squatting like frogs by the river-side, washing away at clothes which never seem a whit the cleanlier for all their talk and trouble. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
• I have been experimenting with various means of disposing of these noisome critters, such as luring them with a trail of breadcrumbs into a dark closet and then murdering them with an axe.
• His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
• We may reckon among these our spiritual evils an evil that hath more refinedness in it, more color for it, and hath deceived more people of integrity than the rest have done; for few have been catched by the former mistakes except such as have apostatized from their holy profession, such as, being corrupt in their consciences, have been forsaken by God and left to such noisome opinions. At the Opening of Parliament Under the Protectorate
• Taylor proceeded to shatter this image: “Even in the country, which now rejoices in the opening of spring, all the freshness of the season is destroyed by the rank ammoniated odors arising from the pits of noisome manure, sunk in the fields.” The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876