noxious
adjective
harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being.
noxiousness
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a word derived from
noxious.
Example Sentences
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Montiel smartly takes Ruth’s noxiousness from comic to pitiful, noting her sad awareness that she’s the odd woman out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
It turned out tiger beetles don't use ultrasound to warn bats of their noxiousness.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
You could pass out from all the cross-pollutants, Snyder’s noxiousness combined with the ammonia smell of a coverup.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
Perhaps nothing has been so established as the noxiousness of Powerpoint to productivity.
From Forbes ● Aug. 25, 2014
The offensiveness and noxiousness look very much like a direct command from the Author of Nature, to do that which shall turn the refuse to a good account—namely, to bury it in the earth.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 by Robert Chambers
