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We experienced the noisome atmosphere of the Nairobi slum.noisome = able to cause nausea
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Quiet, primate and completely secret except for the noisome cologne signal that thrilled the rabbits before it confused them. (source)noisome = bad (causing or able to cause nausea -- often from odor)
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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. (source)noisome = harmful
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Civilization did not rise and flourish as men hammered out hunting scenes on bronze gates and whispered philosophy under the stars, with garbage as a noisome offshoot, swept away and forgotten.† (source)
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The cab sped uptown, past men in front of barber shops, in front of barbeque joints, in front of bars; sped past side streets, long, dark, noisome, with gray houses leaning forward to cut out the sky; and in the shadow of these houses, children buzzed and boomed, as thick as flies on flypaper.† (source)
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Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools.† (source)
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Not to kill me, but to bow down before me and to finally put an end to this noisome rebellion.† (source)
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Not a leaf stirs till nine or ten o'clock ....It grows sickly, the city noisome.† (source)
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In that market town, where people came and went without deep ties one to another, to be pilloried was to he a target of rotten fruit or fish heads or any noisome thing the mob could lay a hand to.† (source)
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(a Lalique decanter and glasses) "or that peculiarly noisome object?† (source)
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He would settle down at it with his papers, exactly as he settled down at his desk in the Municipal Office, and wave each completed sheet to dry the ink in the warm air, noisome with disinfectants and the disease itself.† (source)
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This food provision was generally circumvented by putting a property sandwich in the middle of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and mummified ham or cheese which only the drunkest yokel from the sticks ever regarded as anything but a noisome table decoration.† (source)
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'A little noisome,' he remarked.† (source)
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Every sense of the flesh is tortured and every faculty of the soul therewith: the eyes with impenetrable utter darkness, the nose with noisome odours, the ears with yells and howls and execrations, the taste with foul matter, leprous corruption, nameless suffocating filth, the touch with redhot goads and spikes, with cruel tongues of flame.† (source)
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"What you propose is horrible, Chauvelin," she said, drawing away from him as from some noisome insect.† (source)
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Within that noisome den from which I had emerged I had thought with a narrow intensity only of our immediate security.† (source)
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