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

  Noxious \Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere
     to harm, hurt. Cf. {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious;
        destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air,
        food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as,


        noxious practices or examples.
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              Too frequent an appearance in places of public
              resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. --Swift.
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     2. Guilty; criminal. [R.]
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              Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp.
                                                    Bramhall.
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     Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive;
          pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful;
          unwholesome; insalubrious. See {Noisome}.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Nox"ious*ly}, adv. --
          {Nox"ious*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  noxious
       adj : injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical
             wastes"; "noxious ideas" [syn: {harmful}] [ant: {innocuous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  162 Moby Thesaurus words for "noxious":
     abhorrent, abominable, bad, bad for, bad-smelling, baleful,
     baneful, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt,
     bitchy, brackish, catching, cloying, communicable, contagious,
     contaminated, contemptible, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
     corruptive, counterproductive, crude, cussed, damaging, deadly,
     deleterious, despicable, destructive, detestable, detrimental,
     disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, distressing,
     envenomed, execrable, fecal, fetid, forbidding, foul, frowsty,
     frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, gross,
     harmful, hateful, heinous, high, hurtful, icky, ignoble,
     ill-smelling, infectious, infective, iniquitous, injurious,
     insalubrious, insanitary, invidious, lethal, loathsome, maggoty,
     malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant,
     malodorous, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic,
     mildewed, mildewy, mischievous, moldy, morbific, musty, nasty,
     nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nidorous, noisome, objectionable,
     obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ominous,
     ornery, overripe, pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous,
     pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, polluted, prejudicial, putrid,
     rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky,
     repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scatheful,
     septic, sickening, sickly, smellful, smelling, smelly, spoiled,
     stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tainted, toxic,
     toxicant, toxiferous, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic,
     unsanitary, unwholesome, venenate, veneniferous, venenous,
     venomous, vicious, vile, virulent, vomity, weevily, wicked,
     yucky
  
  

















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