Crossword clues for noxiousness
noxiousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noxious \Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.]
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Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.
Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions.
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Guilty; criminal. [R.]
Those who are noxious in the eye of the law.
--Abp. Bramhall.Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See Noisome. [1913 Webster] -- Nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Nox"ious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. the state of being noxious
WordNet
n. the quality of being noxious [syn: harmfulness, noisomeness]
Usage examples of "noxiousness".
She swam with the great fish and the sea-evolved mammals and reptiles, she donned a flyer suit and cruised high above the sea with her wide wings extended alongside the dirigible creatures in the calm currents of air and the cloud layers, and she donned a full gelfield suit with a secondary AG unit and carved her way amongst the poison gases, the acid clouds and the storm bands of the upper atmosphere, surrounded by noxiousness and the ferocious beauty of the ecosystem there.
Yet the fragrance could not entirely mask the underlying noxiousness of stale cigarette smoke.