Adjective : noxious fumes. ,a noxious plan to spread dissension. From Dictionary.com.
I venture that Davis 'noxiousness approaches Mark Penn territory. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Supporter Lanny Davis: Howard Dean Should Resign If He Nixed North Carolina Debate] Reference
Or else, it just didn't rise to the societal level of noxiousness that sexism does. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi David Wolpe: Why Wasn't Gibson's Anti-Semitism Enough?] Reference
This is really another instance of Hillary contriving more garbage or increasing its noxiousness to throw at Obama. From Wordnik.com. [New Obama Ad In Pennsylvania Hits Back At Hillary Over "Small Town" Flap] Reference
I mention the actual word, the word itself, because the current substitute doesn't come near to capturing the noxiousness of the original. From Wordnik.com. [Murder by Metaphor] Reference
On his route to the ruins he witnessed melancholy evidence, in the condition of the surface and population, of the improvidence and noxiousness of. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
He only perceived a difference in the degrees of their noxiousness to. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
It is not possible to erase the noxiousness of rogue states with rhetorical flourish. From Wordnik.com. [Baltiblogs] Reference
The element which I breathed appeared to have stagnated into noxiousness and putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
I take it to be one of the forms of noxiousness which a good citizen is bound to extirpate. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
REACH concerns the process of how a product enters into the market and the declaration of its noxiousness. From Wordnik.com. [cafebabel.com] Reference
Eventually, Carter created a perfectly drawn Venn Diagram of noxiousness by teaming with the Baha Men for the frozen-Margarita-puke anthem. From Wordnik.com. [Idolator] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852] Reference
But then, somewhere between that second and fourth glass, the noxiousness of ethanol diffuses into a flavor as harmless as spring water, and the psychological effect is-what can I say-pure magic. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
His noxiousness lies first of all in the fact that he has great success with women, and so threatens to leave descendants -- that is, to present the world with a dozen Laevskys as feeble and as depraved as himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Duel and Other Stories] Reference
Whereas before the responsibility to prove the noxiousness of a product lay with the sanitary authorities, it is now the opposite, meaning that the manufacturers are obliged to prove the 'non-noxiousness' of their product. From Wordnik.com. [cafebabel.com] Reference
For the purposes of intelligent insurrection against priests and kings, Swinburne ought to have described the natural life of man, free and beautiful, and proved from this both the noxiousness and the needlessness of such chains. From Wordnik.com. [The Victorian Age in Literature] Reference
Hence the diversions of the field become often objectionable, because life is not thus taken away as speedily as it might otherwise have been, and because food or noxiousness is not often the object of the destruction of animals, but mere pleasure or sport. From Wordnik.com. [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference
Looked at in that light, the preferential code of manners, which is all that is usually understood by chivalry, bears distinct resemblance to the sugar that attempts to veil the flavour of a pill or the jam that does its best to conceal the noxiousness of a lurking powder. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage as a Trade] Reference
As in the cabin, however, so here I found this noxiousness of air was not caused by putrefaction or any tainting qualities of a vegetable or animal kind, but by the deadness of the pent-up air itself, as the foulness of bilge-water is owing to its being imprisoned from air in the bottom of the hold. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
Political debates are inherently acrimonious - much of the rhetoric during the time of the American Founding, as well as throughout the 19th Century, easily competes with, if not exceeds, what we have now in terms of noxiousness and extremity - but far more important than tone, in my view, is content. From Wordnik.com. [ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY] Reference
Why won't they study and learn that a "draught" of pure air will injure only those who by draughts of Alcoholic poison or some other evil habit or glaring violation of the laws of life, have rendered themselves morbidly susceptible, and that even a cold is better than the noxiousness of air, already exhausted of its oxygen by inhalation?. From Wordnik.com. [Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.] Reference
MapleStreet …, just to add to the overall noxiousness of the Amarillo air, there are oil fields all over that area, so when the wind is blowing the “right” way, there’s the smell of what’s called “producer” gas mixed with the feedlot and rendering plant odor, plus there’s the occasional whiff of burnt oil for the area refineries, and on and on. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Christian Hate Group ‘Repent Amarillo’ Terrorizes Texas Town, Harassing Gays, Liberals, And Other ‘Sinners’] Reference
The name alludes to the noxiousness of the juice to dogs. ". From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
A) A "viral marketing" I detest that term, "viral" to me carries denotations of noxiousness, toxicity, and illness....) campaign can be very inexpensive--hand one some inexpensive promo items to media personalities who'll write up the product at no cost beyond giving them the promo items--and very effective. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: "No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese."] Reference
Phragmites 'noxiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference
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