noisome
adjective
offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
noisomeness
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a word derived from
noisome.
Example Sentences
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I will not try to describe the noisomeness of that reeking hole.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More
We were all so famished that we took no heed of the noisomeness of the ration.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
It is a singular thing that no beautiful, useful, or even harmless species of bird or insect seems capable of acclimatizing itself as do those characterized by ugliness and noisomeness.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
It was then that Sypher entered on the exordium of the speech which convinced her of the diabolical noisomeness of the Jebusa Jones unguent.
From Septimus by William John Locke
Otherwise, they become the hereditary haunts of vermin and noisomeness, besides standing apart from the possibility of such improvements as are constantly introduced into the rest of man's contrivances and accommodations.
From The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne
