On the scale of bad smells, this most definitely qualified as a noisome stench. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Madden disappeared and presently his "noisome" snores filled the air. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Carl] Reference
Like them, I'm delighted that Bobby Quinn remembers that the word "noisome" exists. From Wordnik.com. [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference
Which o'er the land hath spread its noisome stain. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers] Reference
Louvre despite its ill-paved and noisome condition. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
The atmosphere of the room seemed to become heavy and noisome. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Happily, no bad idea hangs around long enough to become truly noisome. From Wordnik.com. [L.A. Is One Hot City] Reference
I felt assured he would not live long, unless removed from that noisome place. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
As their noisome prittle-prattle faded into the distance, Habrunt felt the danger pass. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
He brought them out into the light one by one, as though he were emptying a noisome kennel. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
Instantly the darkness all about -- the clinging noisome darkness of Orcon at night -- was shattered. From Wordnik.com. [The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette] Reference
When baby was awake, the clatter provoked for its infantship's pleasure was noisome and deafening to all. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Her tomb is in a small chapel, dark, damp, and even noisome: it is indicated only by a flat unadorned stone. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
And the abolitionists of New England were as noisome to him as were the radical secessionists to Henry Clay. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
The men were crowded into a number of shaky old cars, reeking with filth, and redolent of most noisome odors. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
Multitudes they imprisoned in the most noisome dungeons, where they practised all sorts of torments in secret. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He was transferred to a cell in the most unwholesome spot, and infested with noisome smells not to be described. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The man who is fed on "the bread of life" is endowed with powers of resistance against "the noisome pestilence.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
He tried his best, but the serpents he made were all noisome and poisonous, and he saw that he had failed again. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
"Everything is so topsy turvy!" exclaimed Mabel, as she threaded the noisome streets, clinging close to Joe's arm. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
They are running water; if you check them they stagnate, and you must suffer yourself from their noisome exhalations. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
His limbs swollen, his hair white, tumours appear on his jaws, his breath noisome, and his whole person fitted to inspire loathing. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
Why do we not forbid the renting of rooms in which putrid, damp and noisome vapors are working as sure destruction as the worst food?. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
They were living directly over a noisome cess-pool; their cellar was filled with water which could not be drained away, nor would the saturated earth drink it up. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The penal institutions were investigated -- noisome holes in which were crowded wretched prisoners, many of whom had been incarcerated for no ascertainable reason. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
The black charger responded instantly, and surged forward in a hurtling motion of buried muscle as she cantered him down the narrow street past the noisome throngs. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
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