Thesaurus / obnoxious

obnoxious

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

Five coaches, each containing six of the obnoxious prisoners, started to convey them to the prison of the Abbayé.

Mr. Osborne's pronounced Northern principles had made him very obnoxious to those who sympathized with the South.

Stephen, as the head of the Christian community, was especially obnoxious to heathen rage.

We then made ourselves horribly obnoxious with our machine guns, and opened by arrangement.

He stormed and wheedled, threatened and bribed; the obnoxious instrument was constantly brandished before his eyes.

ALONEMARION HARLAND

Public meetings were held, and petitions were sent up from all quarters against the obnoxious proposition.

These obnoxious practices seem to have been carried to a particularly distasteful length on the borders of Wales.

On the next Sunday his voice, when reading the obnoxious prayers, was drowned by a clattering of arms.

Dangerfield breathed a curse at all humanity in general and those obnoxious members in particular who roamed in motor-boats.

No doubt he descried in the movement a chance for a diversion of the public mind from obnoxious topics.

APRIL 16, 2021

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