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This, combined with the ozone, made worse by the heat, and the pesticides from the nearby fields, led to a noxious, inflammatory cocktail that swirled deep in Nicolas’ family’s lungs.

Stay up to look, and you’ll notice entirely new animal sounds, too, especially since you no longer have to worry about the noxious noise of tents rustling in the wind.

One prominent theory viewed the human large intestine as a noxious reservoir of toxins, some of which resulted from bacteria breaking down food, the so-called “putrefaction” process.

There are even reports of people using buckets, and perhaps even plastic bags, and loading those containers into their cars while they’re full of a flammable, noxious liquid.

This is a starkly different moderation approach from Facebook and Twitter, which each set clear, granular, top-down rules in their terms of service and employ armies of contract workers and far-reaching algorithms to weed out noxious content.

From Quartz

Eric Cantor was a noxious, cookie-cutter, U.S. Chamber, GOP hypocrite.

The most noxious of these figures is New York University professor and Nation magazine contributor Stephen Cohen.

When I got out of the car I was assailed by another of the noxious stinks that Lufkin is distinguished for.

In that case, there was indeed a mistranslation, though the actual rendering was only slightly less noxious than the errant one.

Only the advancement of liberal democracy could serve as an antidote to the noxious strains of Islamism emanating from the region.

Others speak of vermin, noxious plants, or instances of uncleanliness.

The dictator Tubertus Posthumus gained a victory over the qui and Volsci, inconsiderable but noxious enemies of the commonwealth.

Hour after hour the big hole deepened until the Seabees ran into noxious gases.

The alien picked his way fastidiously through the noxious debris to the end of the long room.

I felt a shudder run through me at the mention of the noxious creature, and brought the gun to bear as we advanced.

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On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to noxious, such as: corrupting, destructive, fetid, harmful, pernicious, and poisonous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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