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noisome

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noi·some  (noism)
adj.
1. Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul: a noisome odor.
2. Harmful or dangerous: noisome fumes.

[Middle English noiesom : noie, harm (short for anoi, annoyance, from Old French, from anoier, to annoy; see annoy) + -som, adj. suff.; see -some1.]

noisome·ly adv.
noisome·ness n.

noisome
Adjective
Formal
1. (of smells) offensive
2. extremely unpleasant [obsolete noy, variant of annoy]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.noisomenoisome - causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
unwholesome - detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
2.noisome - offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"

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Within that noisome den from which I had emerged I had thought with a narrow intensity only of our immediate security.
As the light sank into the noisome depths, there came a shriek which chilled Adam's blood--a prolonged agony of pain and terror which seemed to have no end.
As it was, miserably and helplessly, not half himself, a puppet dreamer in a half-nightmare, he knew, as a restless sleeper awakening between vexing dreams, that he was being transported head-downward out of the canoe house that stank of death, through the village that was only less noisome, and up a path under lofty, wide-spreading trees that were beginning languidly to stir with the first breathings of the morning wind.
 
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