Noisomely

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Noisome \Noi"some\, a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See
     {Annoy}.]
     1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome;
        insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome
        pestilence." --Ps. xci. 3.
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     2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
        "Foul breath is noisome." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Noi"some*ly}, adv. -- {Noi"some*ness},
        n.
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     Syn: Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous;
          destructive.
  
     Usage: {Noisome}, {Noxious}. These words have to a great
            extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to
            make a distinction between them, applying noxious to
            things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious
            plant, noxious practices, etc., and noisome to things
            that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome
            vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the
            additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free
            from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently
            covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome
            smell.
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