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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

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For both of these geniuses, lack of mainstream success seems to be a creative catalyst: Reacting to their perceived failure, they went beyond the point of no return and in the mid-'90s made noxiously perky, invisibly avant-garde synth pop.

Lucy McKenzie

My pollution-spewing vehicle noxiously idling, the gaily-wrapped spoils of consumerism squatting in the passenger seat, I'm sickened-with guilt, self-disgust, despair, and utter helplessness.

Green guilt and the university classroom

Anyone who has collected millipedes in the field is familiar with the odorous and often noxiously irritating fluids that so many of them emit when handled," notes Eisner.

CREATURES THAT TIME FORGOT - From a handful of bugs and birds to mountain beavers, species that have changed little after tens to hundreds of millions of years both fascinate and puzzle biologists who study "living fossils"

The Laramie Project'' is an impressionistic wash of pointedly provocative talking heads, played by an impressive assemblage of actors portraying the townspeople; some spout noxiously self-righteous venom, others intone sensitive, politically correct cant.