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The electric car has no tailpipe that spews out noxious fumes.noxious = harmful
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They bear no trace of the noxious green slime that came from Glimmer's body — which leads me to believe that might not have been wholly real — but they have a fair amount of dried blood on them. (source)
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The air filled with noxious gas. (source)noxious = harmful to the health
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Some of the migrants bolt down the ladders, trying to escape the noxious haze. (source)noxious = harmful to health
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wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or... (source)noxious = harmful
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It was muggy and humid in Chicago, and the smoky exhaust of double-parked cars made the heavy air noxious. (source)noxious = harmful (unhealthy or unpleasant)
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The air became deathly still once again and a noxious smell seeped into the clearing. (source)noxious = unhealthy
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Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret—they would soon be innoxious cousins to her.† (source)innoxious = not harmfulstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in innoxious means not and reverses the meaning of noxious. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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There was more water here, a tiny, noxiously sulfurous spring that Jeb said they sometimes used as a second latrine because it was no good for drinking.† (source)
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fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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EDGAR STAYED ON THE STOOP, Sipping Henry Lamb's noxious coffee.† (source)
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If, on the contrary, we observe the natural defects of aristocracy, we shall find that their influence is comparatively innoxious in the direction of the external affairs of a State.† (source)
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The still air was hotter than the day outside, reeking of urine and sweat and disinfectant, so noxiously thick that breathing it was beginning to sicken him.† (source)
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Without taking a break, I scrubbed intensely, trying my best not to inhale the noxious fumes.† (source)
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.† (source)
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There are noxious fumes all around the district.† (source)
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