Definitions

noisome

[noi-suhm] / ˈnɔɪ səm /

ADJECTIVE

immoral, bad, offensive

Synonyms

WEAK

baneful dangerous deadly deleterious disgusting fetid foul harmful horrid hurtful injurious insalubrious insalutary loathsome malodorous mephitic mischievous nauseating noxious pernicious pestiferous pestilential poisonous putrid rank reeking repulsive sickening sickly smelly stinking unhealthful unhealthy unwholesome vile yucky

Antonyms

WEAK

good just moral upright

Example Sentences

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Noisome chemicals and tear gas proved as repellent to the courier as to the cur.

From Time Magazine Archive

Noisome applause greeted this oration, but even louder salvos, from auditors of both persuasions, greeted the next speaker, Lawyer Malone of the defense.

From Time Magazine Archive

Noisome and noisy are as different as your nose and your ear.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

There, instead of festering alleys, Noisome dirt and gnawing dearth, Sunny hills and smiling valleys Wait to yield the wealth of earth.

From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon

Noisome as it was, the sight of it made his heart quicken, for here was one of the things of Opal.

From Hunters Out of Space by Kelleam, Joseph Everidge

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