Noxious
adjective
Harmful, poisonous or very unpleasant.
These chemicals have a noxious effect on the environment.
Often appears as...
- noxious gases
- noxious substance
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Disapproving
adjective
Revolting and undesirable, especially to the senses.
Her noxious behavior ultimately pushed everyone away.
Often appears as...
- noxious habits
- noxious person
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Disapproving
adjective
Harmful, poisonous or very unpleasant.
These chemicals have a noxious effect on the environment.
Often appears as...
- noxious gases
- noxious substance
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Revolting and undesirable, especially to the senses.
Her noxious behavior ultimately pushed everyone away.
Often appears as...
- noxious habits
- noxious person
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Context
Often used to describe substances or pollution harmful to natural environments or organisms.
The noxious emissions from the factory endangered the local wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Harm
Referring to something that can cause physical injury or is severely detrimental to health.
Be careful not to inhale the noxious fumes from the cleaning agents.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Effect
Suggests a strong, immediate, and negative impact, more than just mildly harmful.
Drinking the noxious potion caused a severe reaction in the experiment.
Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Context
Often used to describe substances or pollution harmful to natural environments or organisms.
The noxious emissions from the factory endangered the local wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Harm
Referring to something that can cause physical injury or is severely detrimental to health.
Be careful not to inhale the noxious fumes from the cleaning agents.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Effect
Suggests a strong, immediate, and negative impact, more than just mildly harmful.
Drinking the noxious potion caused a severe reaction in the experiment.
Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Context
Often used to describe substances or pollution harmful to natural environments or organisms.
The noxious emissions from the factory endangered the local wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Harm
Referring to something that can cause physical injury or is severely detrimental to health.
Be careful not to inhale the noxious fumes from the cleaning agents.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Effect
Suggests a strong, immediate, and negative impact, more than just mildly harmful.
Drinking the noxious potion caused a severe reaction in the experiment.
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How do animals...
when they know they're about to receive a noxious stimulus. That means they have some memory of physical sensations. We still have a lot to learn about animal pain. As our knowledge grows, it may one day allow us to live in a world where we don't cause pain needlessly.
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Rose George: Inside the...
and noxious gases as much as all the cars in the world. And the good news is that people are now talking about sustainable shipping. There are interesting initiatives going on. But why has it taken so long? When are we going to start talking and thinking
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Asking where consciousnes...
this enabled me to actually watch them moving from being completely awake to being completely unaware of all those noxious and terrifying stimuli that come in from the external world now watching brains dissolve and reassemble
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How to revive your...
but it's not. All politics is identity politics, a never-ending struggle to define who truly belongs. Instead of noxious myths of blood and soil that mark some as forever outsiders,
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Ants Devour Slug Alive!...
it's entire body is covered in a thick and noxious slime it's so gluttonous but once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand
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Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth
its entire body is covered in a thick and noxious slime it's so glutinous that once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand
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Overview PIPE Exploring...
over the years hundreds of millions of tons of ocean wildlife have been extracted and hundreds of millions of tons of noxious waste have been put into the
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Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
and noxious slime it's so glutinous that once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand
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Joan Halifax: Compassion...
is that compassion enhances our immune system. Hey, we live in a very noxious world. Most of us are shrinking
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Norman Spack: How I help...
no matter how anybody tries reparative therapy or any other noxious things. Now, this is relatively rare,
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How do animals...
when they know they're about to receive a noxious stimulus. That means they have some memory of physical sensations. We still have a lot to learn about animal pain. As our knowledge grows, it may one day allow us to live in a world where we don't cause pain needlessly.
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Rose George: Inside the...
and noxious gases as much as all the cars in the world. And the good news is that people are now talking about sustainable shipping. There are interesting initiatives going on. But why has it taken so long? When are we going to start talking and thinking
Video examples
Asking where consciousnes...
this enabled me to actually watch them moving from being completely awake to being completely unaware of all those noxious and terrifying stimuli that come in from the external world now watching brains dissolve and reassemble
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How to revive your...
but it's not. All politics is identity politics, a never-ending struggle to define who truly belongs. Instead of noxious myths of blood and soil that mark some as forever outsiders,
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Ants Devour Slug Alive!...
it's entire body is covered in a thick and noxious slime it's so gluttonous but once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand
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Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth
its entire body is covered in a thick and noxious slime it's so glutinous that once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand
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Overview PIPE Exploring...
over the years hundreds of millions of tons of ocean wildlife have been extracted and hundreds of millions of tons of noxious waste have been put into the
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Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
and noxious slime it's so glutinous that once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand
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Joan Halifax: Compassion...
is that compassion enhances our immune system. Hey, we live in a very noxious world. Most of us are shrinking
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Norman Spack: How I help...
no matter how anybody tries reparative therapy or any other noxious things. Now, this is relatively rare,
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Tom Parker Bowles
British Critic
The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
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John Muir
American Environmentalist
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.
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David Trimble
Irish Politician
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Edmund Burke
Irish Statesman
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Rick Smolan
American Photographer
Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car.
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Pranab Mukherjee
Indian Statesman
India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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Tom Parker Bowles
British Critic
The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
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John Muir
American Environmentalist
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.
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David Trimble
Irish Politician
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Edmund Burke
Irish Statesman
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Rick Smolan
American Photographer
Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car.
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Pranab Mukherjee
Indian Statesman
India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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