a noisome odor
noisome pollution
a noisome environment
noisome fumes
noisome waste
rude and noisome behavior
The noisome smell of garbage filled the alleyway.
The noisome fumes from the factory made the workers sick.
The noisome conditions in the prison led to protests from inmates.
The noisome reputation of the company hurt its business prospects.
The noisome behavior of the guests disrupted the party.
The noisome atmosphere in the room made it difficult to breathe.
The noisome habits of the neighbors annoyed everyone on the street.
The noisome water in the pond was a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
The noisome sight of the polluted river saddened the environmentalists.
The noisome noise coming from the construction site disrupted the neighborhood.
So, remember: " noisome" - smell; " noisy" - hearing.
For example: " The noisome fish market gave me a headache."
A rattling of chains was heard, and a familiar noisome air was wafted from the doorway.
Our cities will continue to become more crowded and noisome. The landscape will get more cluttered, the air and water even dirtier.
I was opprest by a noisome suffocating smell; and perceiving that the grated door was unfastened, I thought that I might possibly effect my escape.
They descended the stone stairway, and as they passed the men's ward, noisy and more noisome even than the woman's ward, scores of eyes followed them from behind the gratings.
They went up the hollow-sounding stairs, and the the odor became thick and noisome, stifling the breath; and a vapor, sickening as the smell of the chamber of death, choked them.
Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
For it is in the most polished society that noisome reptiles and venomous serpents lurk under the rank herbage; and there is voluptuousness pampered by the still sultry air, which relaxes every good disposition before it ripens into virtue.
Here and there a gloomy old palace, solitary among the squalid houses and filthy courts, stood between two noisome ditches, with a forlorn air of trying to preserve its ancient dignity and yet of knowing the effort to be a hopeless one.
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