noisome
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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
“You want truthful sentences?” she asks in the new novel, after a noisome litany of them rolls off her tongue.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2017
The problems of chamber pots — also known as “jerries, night soil, commodes, slop jars, close stools and thunder mugs” — also contributed to this noisome mix.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2016
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
Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters as noisome as a cesspool, till they were slimed and fouled almost up to their necks and stank in one another’s nostrils.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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