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.
There's no doubt that email can bring out the abusiveness and obnoxiousness in some people, but it's still useful to know how people feel.
We have no fur babies which makes us totes sad but our dwelling space doesn't allow for them, only for obnoxious neighbors.
A well-groomed carpet of grass may be nice to look at, but gas-powered mowers pollute the air with noxious fumes.
Because, and believe me I know whereof I speak, the world is "full" of people who think they have the right to be obnoxious about your parenting choices.
And all the time she sounds just like the obnoxious character from the telly show. The Sun
Do they spit venom or emit noxious smells? Times, Sunday Times
The smell of cigarettes can be rather obnoxious, even in the street.
There are stories about endless lunches and obnoxious quips. Times, Sunday Times
Speculation was rife that a ship at sea had emptied its tanks and released a noxious gas that was carried ashore on southerly winds. Times, Sunday Times
Is it showing how you can help someone or the stereotype of the pushy, obnoxious sales associate selling a service or product for which you have no need?
However, that is an attitude that is shaped by my very Western lifestyle wherein Western grocery stores have no such thing as food courts attached to them wolfing down a sandwich slapped together at the Boar's Head deli counter while waiting in the Express checkout line does not count as a food court, and food courts in shopping malls are teeming with screaming, disobedient children, making for a highly unenjoyable, stressful decision-making process between deep-fried hot dogs impaled on sticks and peddled by pimple-faced Rain-bo Brites and the less arterially noxious chicken "patty" that has been breaded, deep-fried, and smeared with diet mayo. Tampopo - A Crunky Quickie at the Market
As Tharanal had led them towards it yesterday, he'd seen thick plumes of smoke - and other, more noxious vapors - rising from outlying ventilation shafts like the fumaroles of volcanos.
Plotz deftly neuters Graham's ridiculous eugenics, putting his noxious opinions in their historical context of the KKK and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s.
The obnoxious tick of the clock clicked annoyingly over the thunder itself.
Finally, while this isn’t an objection specific to this line of argument, it’s worth saying one more time how obnoxious and tendentious is all this talk about the supposed rights of “foreign terrorists.” I Take Requests
Archie is mostly an obnoxious idiot, but all the same, he has a heart of pure gold (I prefer the Jughead character more). Poor, poor Betty, ‘the saddest girl in the world’ | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
She should have the best of forage, the purest of water, the cleanest and best of ventilated stables, and the air should be free from any taint of noxious vapors - in a word, the entire environment of this faithful animal should be as carefully and honestly protected as though she was human and not brute.
It is incredibly difficult to find a high school student who isn't obnoxious.
Even a healthy animal not exposed to noxious substances will have some toxins present in the body (e.g., mercaptans, short-chain fatty acids, skatoles, indoles, ketone bodies).
Both the Top Gear Tendency, which bangs on about obnoxious feminists, and the PC lobby which wants the commission to be a strident, boot-faced, politically correct thought police are now just hanging on at the fringes of public life. The Guardian World News
And Kuznetsova, with her dark hair and plaintive eyes and sometimes obnoxious laugh, has become a new emblem — an emblem not of suffering, but of anger with the place that Russia has become, a parallel world cordoned off from Europe and the United States that lacks drinkable tap water and a genuinely independent judiciary, and is led by a criminal regime driven by the puniest of ambitions: theft. From Russia, With Self-Loathing
It should hardly need mentioning that the welfare of users demands that all interiors be free of products that emit unpleasant or noxious fumes. A Philosophy of Interior Design
Thus the dreadful smogs of pre-1952 have been eliminated and the emission of noxious and offensive gases limited.
These fires produce really obnoxious fumes and smoke.
Mostly I hate jet skis, those fast and noisy personal watercraft often driven by obnoxious kids whose idea of a good time is harassing fishermen or generally tearing up a quiet lake. Uncategorized Blog Posts
The noxious weed of clericalism has choked the development of a people's church.
A STUDENT died after being overcome from noxious fumes at a university halls of residence. The Sun
Now I'm talking about it so much it sounds like my life is a constant stream of noxious gases, like I walk around all day pumping, rasping and squelching.
Mr. Thomson, the "curat" of Anstruther Easter, was a man highly obnoxious to the devout: in the first place, because he was a "curat"; in the second place, because he was a person of irregular and scandalous life; and in the third place, because he was generally suspected of dealings with the Enemy of Man. Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays
Let us keep our fingers crossed and hope that the tide that is swirling about the buckled patent leather pumps of Mr. Speaker sweeps him and her away down the Thames like so much noxious mephitic effluent. They Cannot Send All Of Us To The Gulag
I find him to be obnoxious
We must be vigilant to ensure that weeds do not become noxious as a result of any new crop variety.
And the obnoxious rantings of certain techno-utopians border on the asinine when they don't cross it. Journalism: product v process (Blog for Democracy)
An obnoxious, ginger-haired bully then accuses Elvis of talking to himself like a weirdo and lays into him. Weekend Weirdness Review: John Carpenter’s Elvis Starring Kurt Russell | /Film
Customer service at this shack included a classy belch and the most obnoxious and pushy service of the night.
Speculation was rife that a ship at sea had emptied its tanks and released a noxious gas that was carried ashore on southerly winds. Times, Sunday Times
On at least one noxious occasion Mad Max barked orders to her as he sat astride a thunderbox, a horrendous experience for anyone of a sensitive disposition.
For instance, those who grow herbicide-tolerant soybeans typically avoid the most noxious weed killer, turning instead to glyphosate herbicides, which are less toxic and degrade more quickly.
This experiment let them show that the protein was made in the fly's major taste organ (called the labellum) and trace its manufacture to a subset of sensory cells that respond to noxious chemicals. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
The test was only obnoxious to sincere fanatics; but among them must have been hundreds of persons who had no criminal designs, and merely deemed it a point of honour not to "homologate" any act of a Government which was corrupt, prelatic, and unholy. A Short History of Scotland
The small probes were hissing and seemed to be emitting noxious gas. The Sun
Burning glue sent noxious fumes into the night sky in Brentford this week, after a factory caught fire near the Great West Road.
appreciable amounts of noxious wastes are dumped into the harbor
Visceral pain occurs when noxious stimuli affect a viscus, such as the stomach or intestines.
Inspect your plants regularly for insects such as aphids, thrips, whiteflies, and other noxious pests, whether indoors or outdoors.
We may have to listen to this obnoxious windbag for another 6 years, bloviating on the Senate floor unrestricted.
The purpose for this requirement is to prevent noxious combustion gases from venting into the living area.
What are called Gallican ideas are ever sprouting up like noxious weeds; there is a malcontent The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
Strolling through the subway home, even the little hoodies hanging around don't seem as obnoxious in this weather.
A few years later, Old Lyme would become the eponym for the disease; and those once-annoying deer ticks were suddenly noxious.
With a sweeping gesture, she lowered the dipper into the steaming cauldron holding the noxious purple brew that was going to cure Alicia's headaches and Chino's gall-bladder problems.
Lasky admitted charges of possessing a CS gas canister and possessing a weapon adapted to discharge a noxious substance.
The composite material has favorable bioactivity and compatibility, and the degradation product of the composite material is innoxious and has no irritant.
Let us now suppose that a "blackbirder" (obnoxious name to many recruiters) from Samoa, Fiji, or Queensland, has reached one of the New The Call Of The South 1908
He's mendacious and obnoxious, so what accounts for his appeal?
I read that as a clear statement that she still holds to her transphobic views – and the subtext is as obnoxious as it is heavy-handed and unoriginal. Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1985
Of all the most obnoxious, pigheaded, stupid, moronic things he could say!
The isles which had leagued with the Mede were strongly obnoxious to the confederates, and it was proposed to exact from them a fine; in defrayal of the expenses of the war. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
He'd been tracked there from a doss-house in Paddington, where a single viewing of the sketch in the hands of a detective constable had prompted a quick identification from a reception clerk eager to rid the building of the noxious police presence. In the Presence of the Enemy
I have declared in the causes what harm costiveness hath done in procuring this disease; if it be so noxious, the opposite must needs be good, or mean at least, as indeed it is, and to this cure necessarily required; maxime conducit, saith Montaltus, cap. Anatomy of Melancholy
The SSC plays a crucial role in the noxious and nonnoxious somatosensory processing.
I'm currently revising a manuscript for resubmission, which is a rather noxious chore since, of course, it was a thing of lapidary perfection to begin with. Stayin' Alive
And the rest of the time she carped, criticized, verbally and sometimes physically abused her adopted son while fawning obnoxiously over his ‘perfect’ sister.
As an added bonus, since I know absolutely zilch about Bob Fosse, I could not take serious issue with the choreography like the obnoxious couple sitting next to me.
Reading through the obnoxious comments and childish banter of a seeming pro-drug company to anything which suggests control of dangerous substances - illegal because they are dangerous - as a parent of a young person addicted for 17 years, my first reaction to the evident "huffed" attitude and pure polemic is that I am glad that there exists an anti-drug group in this country. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
Even someone with his track record - and, for a tubby obnoxious slug, he has managed to shack up with some stunners - must occasionally fall at the first hurdle.
Where early travelers saw sharp-tailed grouse, bison, bighorn sheep, grizzly bears, numerous beaver and even wolverines, today they see dust, feral horses, and noxious weeds including cheatgrass, halogeton and Russian thistle. Bird Cloud
Some of these hybrids, such as ragwort (Jones 2000), blackberry, rhododendron, lantana, old man's beard and spartina, have become noxious weeds in many countries (although one of my friends says concrete is actually the worst noxious weed). Remote central
The whole of central London is not entirely choked by noxious fumes, though. Times, Sunday Times
Burning nylon releases noxious gasses and leaves a sticky mess on the land. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless-high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot: without his frantic ambition and insecurity I would not now be sitting on (as my present home was named by others) Haven Hill. John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
We go rafting, which is fun and exciting, although the experience is slightly marred by our obnoxious German guide, who kept pulling bullshit like getting us to paddle our raft in a circle, or steering us backwards under waterfalls. Vignettes from Reid’s Visit
Rosa multiflora is the only species of the nine that is currently listed on West Virginia's noxious weed list.
It had long been used in Europe to kill predators and ‘noxious’ birds such as crows and magpies.
I'm sure she could take them, but I'd still feel uneasy if obnoxious dopes with ill-bred intentions were within a twenty foot distance from her.
Chip production involves some pretty noxious substances, such as the decidedly nasty hydrofluoric acid used to etch the silicon wafers.
In fact they contained a chemical with an indelible, noxious smell. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
She is seated alone, when her clever maid Susanna ushers in the young page Cherubino, just banished from the house because obnoxious to the jealous Count.] _Susanna_ -- Here's our young Captain, Madame. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
The men at the bar were loud and obnoxious.
Do they spit venom or emit noxious smells? Times, Sunday Times
Benzene is especially noxious, with the ability to cause bone marrow cancer and leukemia.
Being a freshman, even at a school ranked as high on some random magazine's “Top Colleges” list as Washington University in St. Louis is, is a stressful and mentally fragmenting experience for even the most obnoxiously confident of new high school graduates. Stressed-Out Frosh On Brink Of Mental Breakdown Encouraged To Live With Complete Strangers Of Questionable Habits
Residents quite rightly complain of flies, noxious odours, dust, seagulls and noise pollution from the site.
The creatures exude a noxious substance as a byproduct of their metabolic processes, one that prevents fouling of its exterior and discourages predators.
In 1981, a noxious earnest effort takes locate in the disreputable H-block of Belfast's Maze Prison. politico inmates, led by Bobby Sands (Fassbender), respond to take until the nation polity acknowledges the FTO as a lawful semipolitical organization. Planet Malaysia
When it is stopped by any reason, such as catarrh or disease, the skin fails in its work, and the noxious matters, instead of being expelled from the body, are thrown back into the system. The Art of Living in Australia
But this particular craze has nothing to do with the incantation of spells, or the brewing of noxious potions.
By my observation, made during many an unhappy hour spent sitting in the noxious fug of the waiting room, the interval needed by the doctor between patients averages out at about… ten minutes.
In addition, charcoal granules will absorb noxious gases. Times, Sunday Times
Alexander Witt who has directed this film is a competent second unit director and delivers what is expected of him - absolutely brain-dead stuff - forgive the obnoxious pun!
I had to call each of my clerks into my office one at a time and explain how what I did actually made the obnoxious guy feel worse.
I wasn't sure quite what was so bothersome about it - other than the obvious obnoxiousness, of course.
Adding that third oxygen atom makes ozone a very pushy and highly obnoxious little molecule.
The “start over” refrain is obnoxious and Dems should be putting out ads with this refrain for the upcoming legislation and elections. Think Progress » VIDEO: The GOP’s Solution To Everything — Let’s ‘Start Over’
Snooki's extramural activities have included participation in a tag-team bout on Wrestlemania (her team won) and a minor conviction (fine, community service) for being, in the words of the judge, "rude, profane, obnoxious, and self-indulgent" on a public beach when drunk. Other Comments
Laboratory space, particularly hoods (the kind exhausted only by draft caused by a gas burner causing warm air to raise and take some of the obnoxious fumes through a chimney) was very scarce and even by the time I became an assistant professor it was not welcome to "pollute" more important conventional work. George A. Olah - Autobiography
This is especially obnoxious on a widescreen display, but there is even extra space on a regular television.
Andre Dice Clay lacked that "loveable" side that Cohen seems able to generate even while being obnoxious. Sacha Baron Cohen, working as a tool.
By all accounts, he's a bit of a loner, doesn't suffer fools gladly, is a bit of an obnoxious twerp, a shy, intelligent, social misfit.
Only you, like I, have most likely developed some charming personality traits that soften our surliness, and compensate for our crabbiness, allowing us to better suffer those "fools" we do not suffer so gladly, and at the same time, rendering ourselves less obnoxious to others. Dr. Judith Rich: How to Love A Curmudgeon
Bidens pilosa is one of the noxious invasive weed in Asteraceae.
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There is also a specific obligation to prevent the emission of noxious or offensive substances into the atmosphere.
I'll usually bolt out of bed and stumble around as if drunk, in an effort to find the obnoxious noise and shut it off.
His hair is slicked back in that obnoxious, macho way.
The view was less broken and there were glimpses of dry knolls in the swamp and verdure not so noxious and tanglesome. Blackbeard: Buccaneer
TRPV1 can detect noxious stimulus and convert it into action potentials traveling to the central and forming pain sensation.
You spend much more of your time wincing at noxious stinks, than reveling in delightful aromas. On typographic fetishism as mental illness
And in this alternative existence did you still have the same noxious body odor?
Cheap seed -- and that means _poor_ seed, _always_ -- does not contain the varieties of grasses necessary to the making of a rich, deep, velvety sward, and it almost always _does_ contain the seeds of noxious weeds which will make your lawn a failure. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
Another noxious insect, the smallest, but not the least formidable, was the sand-fly known in Canada by the name of the _brulot_. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1
It was an age of excess, of overweening ambition, of greed, and phoniness, and sucking up, and the glorification of strange, obnoxious, preening, uninteresting people.
Why is that the most obnoxious, most annoying, the most grating and jarring is the most popular?
Can't Post | oh i forgot since there are in fact a bunch of old farts playing in gaud 3 times a week i will be bringing hockey sticks and my bag full of hockey gear-if they allow noxious dangerous goods across the border. Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway!
Soft-spoken guitar tuner and roadie Mitch longs to be a guitar player and to have some of the perks of the obnoxious guitar idol he works for.
Repression and mystery, he considered wholesome for girls; and he considered the enlightening of them -- to some extent -- a prudential measure for their defence; and premature instruction is a fire-water to their wild-in-woods understanding; and histrionic innocence is no doubt the bloom on corruption; also the facts of current human life, in the crude of the reports or the cooked of the sermon in the newspapers, are a noxious diet for our daughters; whom nevertheless we cannot hope to be feeding always on milk: and there is a time when their adorable pretty ignorance, if credibly it exists out of noodledom, is harmful: -- but how beautiful the shining simplicity of our dear young One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2
Heavy industry pollutes our rivers with noxious chemicals.
And why the kerfuffle over canine vectorship when you're infinitely more likely to catch something life-threatening from the food itself, or something noxious from the kid at the next table (who is "quite naturally" a better vector than any dog) — and no one's banning food or children. Should we be more like the French and invite dogs to dinner?
You can find many faults with Sarah Palin; she is arrogant, self-centered, egotistic, grossly dishonest, can be pompous and obnoxious, and is literally sociopathic without any conscience, to name just an obvious few. King: 'Going Rogue' reignites Palin divide, even in her hometown
We have, in this country, a generation of obnoxious, unruly, disrespectful louts.
Foxes also carry and transmit several diseases, eat and spread seeds from noxious weeds, and kill livestock.
In addition, charcoal granules will absorb noxious gases. Times, Sunday Times
I could have sworn this obnoxious clause had been dropped, after widespread criticism.
The air became easier to breath, losing the noxious stench of rot.
Alternatively, they may be used to signal to predators, the classic example being aposematic coloration in species that have noxious defenses, such as skunks.
He's affable but obnoxious, well-intentioned but downright dorky.
I started with obnoxious colours, brown and red mainly, and worked from there.
The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century.
Many adults automatically view teenagers as rude, obnoxious, and discourteous.
Tests have revealed high levels of air pollutants forming a perpetual noxious brew in the worst affected areas.
A bunch of abomination, called a cigar, reeked in the left-hand corner of the mouth of one, and in the right-hand corner of the mouth of the other -- an arrangement happily adapted for the escape of the noxious fumes up the chimney, without that unmerciful "funking" each other, which a less scientific disposition of the weed would have induced. Humorous Ghost Stories
He takes it on himself to befriend the son of a rich shipbuilder introducing Jude Law and take over his idyllic playboy cultural lifestyle, in this gripping thriller that also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a rememberably obnoxious cultural toff. This Week’s MOVIEDROME | Obsessed With Film
What's less well understood is how noxious such projects are for the cities that surround them.
I hope they either get back together or he resumes his normal obnoxious and gobby rantings soon.
It takes viewers crashing through black holes, cosmic stardust and primal gases as its characters brave heat, flies, noxious toads and crazy locals to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
Representing the O'Hara Foundation in Britain, improbably, is a spoiled, bratty young girl, Scarlett O'Hara (?!?), who spends most of her time being obnoxious or putting the moves on Ray, who proves to be quite the shrinking violet ( my voice-over is being done by a woman, okay? Archive 2007-11-01
The vibe I got off of Gary--who, note, claims to be of the Left--is the same obnoxious one that drove me away from the Left in the States, namely the sophomoric insistence on the irrelevance of seemingly superficial differences. Confusion
The main British story when I first arrived in the States was the food crisis, the line being that Americans visiting Blighty risked being killed stone dead by noxious odours, or drowned in the tears of apple-cheeked farmers' wives.
A decent living politician is one who is not actively corrupt, rude, obnoxious, vile or idiotic.
Suddenly it was mid-June and noxious weeds—leafy spurge, cheatgrass, hoary cress, Canada thistle—grew everywhere. Bird Cloud
One of the parents was a most obnoxious character. No-one liked him.
What more might your exquisitely delicate sensibilities manage to tolerate from a noxious slug like this, Andy, a lynching in your front yard? How Many Troops will Obama Withdraw from Iraq? « Antiwar.com Blog
Geared from the start with her charm, fierce determination and a precocious vocabulary, I didn't like her, and I didn't like the character of the debouched marshal played with obnoxious magnificence by Jeff Bridges. Carol Smaldino: Examining Our Nation's True Grit: Can We Change Our Minds?
We must trace the source of these noxious gases.
Parthenium hysterophorus L. of the family Asteraceae is an exotic noxious weed from Central America.
Are strychnine or warfarin poisons or noxious things?
Safire advises, ‘an obnoxious male showoff seeking to attract females is derided as a floss or as engaged in flossing.’
i agree that zoe wasn't nearly as odious as I thought she would be. i guess there's "tay" in the truly obnoxious role. what's the deal with rodger? many things don't seem to fit with him / them. and zoe has shaved almost 10 years of her age. born in '62 not' 71 Pretty On The Outside
‘This perennial garden plant has become a noxious weed and is spreading rapidly throughout North America,’ says Farr.
This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
There are stories about endless lunches and obnoxious quips. Times, Sunday Times
Because of her obnoxious attitude Chaucer makes her toothless, fat and large.
They were loud, brash, and obnoxious, and Tanj couldn't imagine how they'd been admitted to the auction.
But right now you are coming across as arrogant, self-centred and a bit obnoxious. The Sun
Both the Top Gear Tendency, which bangs on about obnoxious feminists, and the PC lobby which wants the commission to be a strident, boot-faced, politically correct thought police are now just hanging on at the fringes of public life," he said. Evening Standard - Home
We've been so desensitized by the increasing annoyingness of the Internet that we've grown completely oblivious to how absolutely obnoxious Internet advertising has become.
It is true that economic growth can degrade the environment: the noxious fumes in many Chinese cities are a case in point. Times, Sunday Times
There must be some kind of gradation here in which stoats are classed as less obnoxious than weasels, although they are relatives.
Studies done in the 1940s showed that the use of noxious stimuli or counterirritation could produce significant analgesic effects.
In response, he'd been unendingly affectionate and obnoxiously good-humored. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
In Nanxuzhou Pearl came close to taking the conventional missionary view that pictured Chinese people not as individuals but as a menacing, faceless horde, morally obnoxious and numerically overwhelming: “hard-featured, envious, curious, unsympathetic and ungracious,” as the head of U.S. Presbyterian Missions put it on a tour of the Yangtse basin, “they flock to a foreigner and close him in, like ants to a piece of bread.” PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
If you travel, you become more cosmopolitan and less likely to fulfil the caricature of the ‘obnoxious yank’ who is blind to other cultural values.
I groaned and rolled over as some obnoxious buzzing noise interrupted my nap.
Over the years, he has seen his weeds change from tough, hard to manage weeds, such as quack grass or thistle, to less noxious weeds that are easier to control, such as foxtail and common ragweed.
Do they spit venom or emit noxious smells? Times, Sunday Times
As for your question: your desire to punish people for engaging in behaviour you find distasteful is just as obnoxious as when anyone else does it. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What’s Next — Dreaming of Mussolini?
If they were willing to bribe a noxious couple to help a poor girl then what lengths might the this family go to when one of their own was rotting away in jail?
By the laws of probability, the culprit was most likely an obnoxious American tourist.
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.
The transduction of noxious stimuli begins with peripheral nociceptors.
A commenter would really have to persistently go out of their way to be worthless, to develop a clear pattern of being at once trite, obnoxious, brainless, and valueless in sum, having nothing at all to contribute and being distinguished from a troll solely by persistence efore graduating to Freder's persona non grata status. Now, let me be Instapundit for a while.
I had a faint hope that the heat would remove that obnoxious weed ragwort from the roadsides of Cumbria.
According to legend, what did Defoe's pillory audience throw at him instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects?
The response to noxious stimuli can be modulated by their repeated application.
Lance and Wayne barged in with obnoxiously loud voices and girlish giggles.
Another noxious insect, the smallest but not the least formidable, was the sandfly known in Canada by the name of the brulot. The Journey to the Polar Sea
We have a galaxy of ineffective and obnoxious stewards in the ground. Times, Sunday Times
His manner was both familiar and overbearing, a combination of haimish and obnoxious. ‘Right Time, Right Place’
Two layers of coutil, one fashion layers of obnoxious satin fabric. WordPress.com News
For virtually all animals, behavioral responses to odorants are essential for food localization, avoidance of noxious agents, and selection of reproductive partners.
This was not hard given that they were extremely loud and obnoxious whilst boarding and finding their seats. Times, Sunday Times
I assume he was not aware of the fact that he was in a church and being extremely obnoxious.
Some of his colleagues say that he's loud and obnoxious.
London, and was considered as offending against the six articles, and was taken to the Tower, and put upon the rack — probably because it was hoped that she might, in her agony, criminate some obnoxious persons; if falsely, so much the better. A Child's History of England
Sure, she could be a rude, obnoxious, pushy, bossy woman most of the time, but I also had to admit that she had the heart of a lion.
I picked up the fake gun and held in a particularly obnoxious woman's face.
With a similar obnoxious edge to Beyonce's infamous 'if you like it than you should have put a ring on it' lyric, it will either hit a big red 'repel' button or go straight in as your song of the year. Irish Blogs
It was charmless, obnoxious, aggressive, misogynistic, adolescent ultraviolence. Times, Sunday Times
He suspects that Parkinson patients have defects in liver enzymes that usually serve to detoxify noxious chemicals.
Like everything else the Lib-Dem's have been involved in so far in this godawful government this is a cack handed mess and Clegg et al have nobody to blame but themselves for making themselves so noxious and toxic their mere involvement practicaly dooms it to failure. Constitutional reform: Alternative currents | Editorial

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