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noxious adj. harmful to health, often referring to nuisances.

noxious adjective adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, brutal, causing danger, contaminated, corrupting, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, fatal, fraught with danger, harmful, hazardous, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, internecine, lethal, malefic, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, nocent, noisome, offensive, perilous, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, precarious, risky, ruinous, scatheful, threatening, toxic, unfavorable, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, vicious, virulent

See also: bad, contemptible, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, fatal, harmful, harsh, inferior, inimical, insalubrious, lethal, malignant, objectionable, obnoxious, peccant, pernicious, pestilent, repulsive, sinister, tainted, toxic, unfavorable, virulent

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If lethal or noxious gases were released, rushing into the open air could prove deadly.

Disaster response: why fleeing could be fatal by Morelli, William / Real Estate Weekly

Noxious gases and other airborne irritants could also increase with global warming, significantly heightening the toll of lung diseases.

Dead heat: the health consequences of global warming could be many by Perkins, Sid / Science News

``But every day the LAPD responds to a hundred situations where a water heater blows up or noxious gases are emitted in a car crash.

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