noisome
adjective
offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
noisomeness
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a word derived from
noisome.
Example Sentences
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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
That of Doomsdale at Launceston in Cornwall, has never been exceeded for filth and pestilential noisomeness, nor those of Lancaster and Scarborough-castles for exposure to the inclemency of the elements.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
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
This added to the general noisomeness, while it took away from my appetite.
From The People of the Abyss by Jack London
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
