noisome

Example Sentences

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From a commercial standpoint, the companies have been reluctant to get in the way of the torrent, unless it’s so noisome that it crosses an inescapable line.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

This is my new spiritual home, and the more I learn about it, the more I find myself unable to bear the noisome sunlight of the United States.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

Media scholar Tim Wu plunges into the noisome history of “attention harvesting” — the commodification of human attention by industry and government.

From Nature • Oct. 11, 2016

But in the 17th century Leiden was also an industrial town, noisome and crowded.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2011

Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien