NOISOME, a.
1. Noxious to health hurtful mischievous unwholesome insalubrious destructive as noisome winds noisome effluvia or miasmata noisome pestilence.
2. Noxious injurious.
3. Offensive to the smell or other senses disgusting fetid.
Foul breath is noisome.
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