noisome

Example Sentences

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From a commercial standpoint, the companies have been reluctant to get in the way of the torrent, unless it’s so noisome that it crosses an inescapable line.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

This is my new spiritual home, and the more I learn about it, the more I find myself unable to bear the noisome sunlight of the United States.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

History is, for better and worse, an argument, a controversy, a noisy and even noisome wrangle over meanings and values.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2020

Media scholar Tim Wu plunges into the noisome history of “attention harvesting” — the commodification of human attention by industry and government.

From Nature • Oct. 11, 2016

Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien