[ UK /nˈɒkʃəs/ ]
[ US /ˈnɑkʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. injurious to physical or mental health
    noxious chemical wastes
    noxious ideas
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How To Use noxious In A Sentence

  • By "tares" is meant, not what in our husbandry is so called, but some noxious plant, probably darnel. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal, with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys.
  • By himself becoming a Hindu and a sannyasin, he has challenged the obnoxious caste system.
  • Returning to her native city from Asia, she was driven home by a rude, obnoxious and deceitful driver.
  • While some consider giant salvinia to be an attractive aquatic plant, this free-floating fern is also an obnoxious invader that's sometimes referred to as ‘the world's worst water weed.’
  • Where necessary to render harmless and carry away noxious or flammable gases, line brattice or other approved methods of ventilation shall be used so as to properly ventilate the face.
  • To create those noxious odors would mean it would be too intense at the source and permeate the whole valley, company project manager Mark Patton says. Calif. town battles overpowering odors
  • Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
  • At this point, it becomes difficult for the body to maintain nutritional homeostasis, utilize nutrients appropriately, synthesize plasma proteins, and detoxify noxious substances.
  • Several nonnative noxious weeds have invaded stickseed habitat and threaten to out-compete the stickseed for the available nutrients.
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