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adjective

Noxious adj.

Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. "Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions."

Guilty; criminal. (R.) "Those who are noxious in the eye of the law."

Synonyms: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See Noisome.

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Etymology of 'Noxious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Noxious" Quotes from Famous Books

... state of affairs by letter (15 May, 1582), in which he says that scarcely any grave was then made without exposing corpses, and that the heat of the crowds standing over the shallow graves caused noxious exhalations. It was currently reported at the time that the gravediggers were the cause of the shallow graves "as being desirous to have the infection spred that they might ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... the light we need; With soundest knowledge fill; From noxious error guard our creed, ...

— Hymns for Christian Devotion - Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination • J.G. Adams

... of the nature of the country rendering it altogether uninhabitable, the noxious vapours that must naturally arise during the heats of summer from these marshes (should the present surface of land on which we are now travelling be then free from water), would render the whole tract peculiarly unhealthy. Even during the short space of ...

— Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales • John Oxley

... Most noxious fungi appertain to the first or second class above given, and taste or common-sense would readily reject them, unless they were cooked with other food or excessively spiced. For this reason plain cooking is advised, and further, no amateur should venture to mingle ...

— Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous • Anonymous

... whole population, a whole country, believed no, knew to be damned to all eternity this incontinent, stagnant-souled, kept creature of the army! Not even eternal damnation could dignify him or make him seem aught but the absurd and noxious thing that he was; a soul like his would make itself at home in hell like the old sergeant in the ...

— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon

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