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Definition

harmful to physical or mental health

noxious = harmful to physical or mental health

noxious chemical wastes
Even the brush-wood is an imported fruit-tree, namely, the guava, which from its abundance has become as noxious as a weed.
Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
It was muggy and humid in Chicago, and the smoky exhaust of double-parked cars made the heavy air noxious.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

noxious = harmful (unhealthy or unpleasant)

noxious = foul smelling and harmful

The pig stomped around and tore down half an acre of trees, belching a cloud of noxious gas.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

noxious = harmful (to health)

The air became deathly still once again and a noxious smell seeped into the clearing.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

noxious = unhealthy

noxious = harmful to the health

Some of the migrants bolt down the ladders, trying to escape the noxious haze.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

noxious = harmful to health

Smoke billowed into the room, thick and noxious.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

noxious = harmful to health

wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or...
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

noxious = harmful

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.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

noxious = harmful

His first offering is a Beethoven cello sonata, and this drab concrete corner of downtown Los Angeles, with its nearby settlement of bug-bitten denizens and moving clouds of noxious vehicle exhaust, is transformed into a place of lilting repose.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

noxious = harmful to physical or mental health

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas
noxious ideas
That I killed a vile noxious insect, an old pawnbroker woman, of use to no one
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Crime And Punishment
But intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
A woman may be a fool, a sleepy fool, an agitated fool, a too awfully noxious fool, and she may even be simply stupid.
Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
This noxious fool' (meaning the manager) 'is capable of prying into my boxes when I am not looking.
Conrad, Joseph -- Heart of Darkness
I disapprove of arsenic as a means of destroying noxious insects infesting flowers and plants.
Collins, Wilkie -- Law and the Lady

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