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noisome
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synonyms: miasmatic, mephitic, olid, ~pong, ~hogo, ~effluvial ???
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Definition:1. morally harmful2. noxious; stinky
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On this festival, the servants drive a herd of Yahoos into the field, laden with hay, and oats, and milk, for a repast to the Houyhnhnms; after which, these brutes are immediately driven back again, for fear of being noisome to the assembly.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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“Yes. You’ve heard of the Tolbooth, I imagine?”
I had. One of the most noisome and notorious prisons of the period, it was famous for filth, crime, disease, and darkness.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649)
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Though thou bear in thy bosom the herb Araxa, most noisome to virginity,
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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