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Definition

causing or able to cause nausea — especially from odor

or:

harmful

the noisome atmosphere of the Nairobi slum

noisome = causing or able to cause nausea — especially from odor

or:

harmful

The body was found in shallow noisome water.
The vapor from this pool was extremely noisome, and tainted the air for a considerable distance.
Irving, Washington -- Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
breath, and foul breath is noisome.
Shakespeare, William -- Much Ado about Nothing
I will find means to protect him from the swarms of noisome flies that prey on the bodies of men who have been killed in battle.
Homer -- The Iliad
Quiet, primate and completely secret except for the noisome cologne signal that thrilled the rabbits before it confused them.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved

noisome = bad (causing or able to cause nausea — often from odor)

To look at him anyone would have supposed that he had passed the night in a noisome dungeon without food or water; but in reality he had been shut up in quite a comfortable room and provided with an excellent supper.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

noisome = harmful

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
It would naturally have been impossible in that noisome cavern of a jail, with its mangy crowd of drunken, quarrelsome, and song-singing rapscallions.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Not to kill me, but to bow down before me and to finally put an end to this noisome rebellion.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
Within that noisome den from which I had emerged I had thought with a narrow intensity only of our immediate security.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
Extraordinary how soon the noisome flavour of imprisoned sleep, becomes manifest in all such places that are ill cared for!
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
The Bible -- Psalms
'A little noisome,' he remarked.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
No long course it hath before it finds a plain, on which it spreads, and makes a marsh, and is wont in summer sometimes to be noisome.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
Would you have famine bite me with its jaws which are gaping in front of me, blacker, deeper, and more noisome than a Tartarus or the nose of a monk?
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
Then they broke the evil bridge and set red flames in the noisome fields and departed.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King
If the dank atmosphere of Amsterdam had been the cause of his first terrible collapse, so the noisome air of Paris had laid him low the second time.
David McCullough -- John Adams

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