Adjective : noxious fumes. ,a noxious plan to spread dissension. From Dictionary.com.
Miramax used to use this mechanism particularly noxiously. From Wordnik.com. [After Paranormal Activity, Paramount Plans to Stay in the Micro-Budget Film Biz | /Film] Reference
And I find large pockets of the sff community still noxiously sexist. From Wordnik.com. [Tiptree and gender: was it once easier?] Reference
How had music this dainty, this boring, this noxiously precious been elevated to champion status?. From Wordnik.com. [Taking sides: Belle & Sebastian -- Indie-pop legends or comfort-rock enablers?] Reference
But I regret to say that KFC (part of the noxiously named YumBrands, if believe) treat their workers -- and their chickens especially poorly. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Hour Roundup] Reference
In his final performance, Dean really hits the mark, playing the noxiously racist Jett Rink - a surly cowboy who inherits oil-rich land and establishes himself as Bick's nemesis - with smoldering angst. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's Glorious Bad Boy: A Tribute to Dennis Hopper] Reference
For six months in the year, from November to April, the town of St. Louis is insufferably and noxiously hot; scarcely any one but the slaves could be induced to remain there, the free inhabitants departing for the interior. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832] Reference
In National Review Online, Rich Lowry explains "The genius of Obama is that he has a pure liberal voting record -- a 100 percent rating from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action in 2005 -- at the same time he appeals to independents and avoids seeming noxiously partisan.". From Wordnik.com. [The Afternoon Read: Friday, December 1, 2006] Reference
This doesn't address the complexity of what you are describing, or the complexity of the intellectual interventions you are committed to, but consider it a bracketed plea for the benefits of intellectual difference, even when the people you are dealing with seem to be noxiously unreconstructed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
By striving for the middle rung, we may have eliminated unrealistic highs and lows, but we've essentially condemned civilization to a pool of standing water that is neither replenishing itself nor destroying itself, but has instead slowly, and noxiously, shown itself to be as devoid of imagination as it is of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Jayne Lyn Stahl: Is Striving to Conform Still the Norm?] Reference
"Today, we are boldly stabbing back against an unconstitutional heart of darkness, a contagion of fundamentalist religious supremacy and triumphalism noxiously dominating the command and control of the technologically most lethal organization ever created by humankind: our honorable and noble United States armed forces.". From Wordnik.com. [Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity] Reference
This is noxiously annoying, because it's redundant and wastes time. From Wordnik.com. [TiVo Community] Reference
It's "thinking outside the box" - itself a noxiously corporate term. From Wordnik.com. [Jezebel] Reference
They live beyond their means, are noxiously materialistic, and affect a chic liberalism - which Ouisa eventually disavows. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
He calls "She's Always a Woman" noxiously anti-women simply because it uses the old adages about inconstancy and casual lies. From Wordnik.com. [Dartblog] Reference
Alongside greenhouse gas emissions, the burning of coal is the leading source of mercury and sulfur dioxide that is noxiously tainting the planet's freshwaters. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
I preferred to look at the article as one big strawman as they blended so noxiously into each other it was difficult to see where one finished and another began. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Stuck at an angle near a buried fire hydrant, they were pushing and spinning and getting nowhere, with the smell of burning rubber noxiously sharp in the cold air. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
"Though the template may be noxiously familiar, The Secret Life of Bees does, at least, give its black characters roles more involving than that of psychic wet nurse," finds. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
And the "pound" they desire is specifically titled the Employee Free Choice Act, the noxiously ill-named measure that would remove the secret ballot from the process of union organization. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News-Record] Reference
But the ethos it embodies - rule over others by way of deception - runs deep through its front companies that link ramified networks comprising some of the 'best' (most noxiously evil) psychopaths globally. From Wordnik.com. [Veterans Today] Reference
Girls can be made not only less noxiously sentimental and impulsive, but their conduct tends to become more thoughtful; they can be made to feel responsibility for bestowing their praise aright and thus influencing the tone of the school. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
You did not know Matthews: he was a man of the most astonishing powers, as he sufficiently proved at Cambridge, by carrying off more prizes and fellowships, against the ablest candidates, than any other graduate on record; but a most decided atheist, indeed noxiously so, for he proclaimed his principles in all societies. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1] Reference
Anyway, I’ve got an old desktop I’m using in the interim, so I’ll probably be able to post a bit, but it’s noxiously slow. From Wordnik.com. [MIA=OSX] Reference
What’s annoying about the Economics 101″ line isn’t (just) that it’s a noxiously condescending way of making such an argument. From Wordnik.com. [Your Objection to My Perpetual Motion Machine is SO Physics 101] Reference
Goodbye, "and the now entirely space-worthy craft shot out through the port, through Trenco's noxiously peculiar at - mosphere, and into the vacuum of space. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
His lame apologia isn't helping the situation, and Politico GOP blogger Jonathan Martin adds noxiously that it "seems like McCain. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
It's noxiously self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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