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as in disgusting
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
a noisome remark about my weight that stuck with me for days
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as in stinking
having an unpleasant smell
the noisome air of the area of the city that was downwind of the dog food factory
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as in poisonous
bad for the well-being of the body
it's no fun having asthma and living in an area with noisome smog
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Recent Examples of noisome
Having gone in the tank for Griffin, North Carolina’s highest courts are a noisome example of why partisanship ought to have no place in judicial selection.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2025
To question the sincerity of the president’s rhetoric—and that of his party—is not to dismiss the challenge posed by the various noisome currents of antidemocratic sentiment and behavior running through our politics like the effluence of overflowing sewers.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
Performers like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who long ago bartered their integrity and believability for money and ratings, can peddle their noisome pro-Trump propaganda on Fox News.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
But Trudeau is using it to get rid of a political headache: the loud, noisome, but nonviolent blockade of bridges in Canada and the downtown of the nation’s capital.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
But her water bowl is filled with a noisome black, brackish liquid — what has fouled it, and for how long, is anyone’s guess.
—Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
And there were some years where his fame was turned infamous by serious accusations of the most noisome acts.
—Ashley Cullins, Billboard, 3 May 2021
Farmers agreed to reduce the emissions of the country’s noisome pigs.
—The Economist, 9 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noisome
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The medical ordeals are traumatic and disgusting, but fascinating and full of the quirks of modern life.—
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Having snow, slush, and (eventually) water all over my floors was a disgusting feeling.—
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Four plays, 76 yards, in 25 stinking seconds.—
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This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.—
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Having been burned badly by his phantom surplus in 2022, Newsom is obviously aware that a repeat would be politically poisonous.—
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Having been burned badly by his phantom surplus in 2022, Newsom is obviously aware that a repeat would be politically poisonous.—
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Not because the moms themselves are toxic people, but because the dynamic shifts into an ugly place with mean-girl behavior.—
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Many quite authentic Natives were targeted for banishment, and the ugly infighting their work inspired was covered widely—by the standards of Indian affairs—in the American media, which saw the battles as part of the larger identity wars raging across the nation in the new millennium.—
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Four players attempted five or more foul shots.—
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The game officials ruled that Gobert impeded Wembanyama's ability to safely land on the follow-through from his jump shot, giving him six flagrant foul points for the season.—
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They’re combined with a non-toxic, hypoallergenic down alternative filling, creating a plush and luxurious sleeping experience that’s designed for back, side, and stomach sleepers.—
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Many hominids went extinct during this period, and being able to consume alcohol without adverse and/or toxic effects would have conferred a survival advantage.—
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Jin Shin has come across some monster potholes over the last couple of weeks, including one in Koreatown that rattled his car with a sickening thump and another near the airport where its depth was obscured by water.—
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Oil is a 20th century energy source, outmoded and responsible for sickening and killing millions of people with the potential to kill millions more.—
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Vermin, malodorous airs and other issues caused 14 Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach restaurants to fail inspection last week.—
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Democrats are an eye-watering 26 points underwater while Republicans are a more mildly malodorous 11 points beneath the surface.—
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“Noisome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noisome. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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