How To Use Noisome In A Sentence
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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.
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Faced with this sort of noisome buffoonery, there is a danger of underreaction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Morrell told them what a noisome stews the place was, insulted the
Chapter 20
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Like them, I'm delighted that Bobby Quinn remembers that the word "noisome" exists.
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Suddenly there are noisome odours on the breeze.
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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
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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.
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His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
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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
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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
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It's an image of fathomless, shocking power, like lifting a trap door and glimpsing something beautiful and noisome, fascinating and unknowable.
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She chased a small form into a shadowed alley full of garbage and more noisome things.
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With each noisome compartment entered, each scuffed door opened, my depression grew.
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But surely there's a less noisome method of distributing cash than one in which innocent pedestrians are accosted by somebody not dissimilar to the last person to have mugged them?
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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.
Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas
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I became convinced that not only was this noisome sheaf the genuine article, but the original document that he had left behind when vanished back into whatever mists had spawned him.
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I looked upon all these creatures as rank and noisome growths that must be hewn out of my path, out of the world.
Chapter 11
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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.
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Snyder loves George, and his noisome influence is behind this inexplicable choice.
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He was ultimately bored for, even for him, the continuous coos of adoration could become quite noisome after the first thirty minutes.
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The bar was noisome and smelly, the stench of unwashed bodies and foul beer mingling with the rotten fish smell of the port.
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I suspect that the deal would have seemed noisome had it been dragged into the warm sunlight of public scrutiny.
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Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks.
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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.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I
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Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks.
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Some Examples: The glauzy and noisome Soul-Siphon settles like a brume.
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The performance consists in a dinner where one eats haggis, a noisome dish to look at, but not unpleasant to eat, and drinks Athol Brose, a delicious drink, but insidious, composed of whisky, honey, cream and rum.
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The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head.
The Garden of Allah
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He did not know what it was, but it was a noisome sensation, like standing on a grate that you felt shift beneath your feet.
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The near-transparent skin insufficiently separates the inside of the body from the outside, hinting at the noisome scandal of the feces 'exteriorization of the body's interior processes.
Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations
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Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
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The dino range has expanded beyond noisy and noisome T Rex and those kangaroo-bouncy raptors to include the mean-clawed, fast-flying pteronadon and big, big spinosaurus.
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But he gets paid to do this day in and day out, so I sort of understand why he continues being utterly noisome.
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He dived down a dark alley and ducked down behind a pile of crates and noisome garbage to catch his breath.
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After a brief sojourn in Salvador, the old capital, they proceeded to Rio de Janeiro, then a noisome slave port with narrow streets filled with rootling pigs and goats.
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His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
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One of the noisome results of such compartmentalization is that relationship "experts" warn us incessantly, "If you have to talk, see a therapist.
Mr. Goodbar Redux
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Walking seemed to be relaxing him slightly, for he could no longer feel his heart beating madly in his chest and the noisome feeling in his stomach had subsided.
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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.
The English Is Coming!
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The President too was pressed into the service of this noisome charade.
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'Urchin blasts' is probably here used generally for what in _Arcades_, 49-53, are called "noisome winds and blasting vapours chill,"'urchin' being common in the sense of 'goblin'
Milton's Comus
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Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and the noisome pestilence.
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Madden disappeared and presently his "noisome" snores filled the air.
Dear Carl
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Surely he shall deliver thee the snare of the fowler, and the noisome pestilence.
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This system of infidelity is well symbolized by a noisome, grevious ulcer, which is loathsome to the sight, offensive to the smell, corrupting to the body, and productive of awful pain.
The Revelation Explained
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Epidemical fevers and fluxes, which fill the ship with noisome and noxious effluvia, often break out, and infect the seamen likewise, and thus the oppressors, and the oppressed, fall by the same stroke.
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Here and across Europe it is the same: noisome, slimy things have crawled out of the sewers to oppress liberty and the human spirit.
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The loo was a noisome pit with a bar of wood across it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I managed to occasionally inject into the sphacelated sheet a quasi-intelligent idea, to disguise its feculence with a breath of sentiment that by contrast seemed an air from Araby the blest; but the stupid ignorance and dollar-worshiping of the management soon dragged it back into the noisome depths of hopeless nescience and subter-brutish degradation.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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You will need a calm retreat from the noisome fray.
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Epidemical fevers and fluxes, which fill the ship with noisome and noxious effluvia, often break out, and infect the seamen likewise, and thus the oppressors, and the oppressed, fall by the same stroke.
