Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a noxious manner; hurtfully; perniciously.
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- adverb In a
noxious manner.
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- adverb in a detrimental manner
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Examples
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And he passed gas—often and loudly and noxiously, joking, “Sorry about the broken tailpipe, guys.”
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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And he passed gas—often and loudly and noxiously, joking, “Sorry about the broken tailpipe, guys.”
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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How had music this dainty, this boring, this noxiously precious been elevated to champion status?
Taking sides: Belle & Sebastian -- Indie-pop legends or comfort-rock enablers? Click Track 2010
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And he passed gas—often and loudly and noxiously, joking, “Sorry about the broken tailpipe, guys.”
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Slime molds, which is what the appartchiks and burrowed in appointees of 2001-2008 are components of, move a LOT faster, and destroy and noxiously contaminate otherwise whatever they contact and ooze all over....
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He believed that our very existence, from infancy, is organized around avoiding “points of anxiety,” such that we mount “security operations” to steer clear of the noxiously churning state.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010
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In his final performance, Dean really hits the mark, playing the noxiously racist Jett Rink - a surly cowboy who inherits oil-rich land and establishes himself as Bick's nemesis - with smoldering angst.
Hollywood's Glorious Bad Boy: A Tribute to Dennis Hopper 2010
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The steamy, noxiously scented heat of the swamplands began to rise to meet them: cloying humidity intensified the basic hydro-telluride stench.
Cattle Town 2010
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In his final performance, Dean really hits the mark, playing the noxiously racist Jett Rink - a surly cowboy who inherits oil-rich land and establishes himself as Bick's nemesis - with smoldering angst.
John Farr: Hollywood's Glorious Bad Boy: A Tribute to Dennis Hopper 2010
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By striving for the middle rung, we may have eliminated unrealistic highs and lows, but we've essentially condemned civilization to a pool of standing water that is neither replenishing itself nor destroying itself, but has instead slowly, and noxiously, shown itself to be as devoid of imagination as it is of purpose.
Jayne Lyn Stahl: Is Striving to Conform Still the Norm? 2010
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