Obnoxious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBNOXIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• unpleasant
• extremely unpleasant
• Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
• Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
• Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.
• causing disapproval or protest
• offensive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• exposed to something unpleasant or harmful —used with to

Words related to OBNOXIOUS

obnoxiously23 obnoxiousness22 offensive18

Words that contain OBNOXIOUS

obnoxiously23 unobnoxious20 obnoxiousness22 obnoxiousnesses24

How to use OBNOXIOUS in a sentence

• Your comfort might be marred by an obnoxious presence.
• Of these the most obnoxious to Richelieu was the elder Marillac, the Keeper of the Seals.
• During his last days here he had made himself so obnoxious that the natives on Malaita would have nothing to do with him.
• There are sentiments on the 72d page of your book, obnoxious to the like charge.
• A most obnoxious measure had been passed by the British parliament, and sent out to this country to be promulgated by the Governor as the law of the land.
• Direct taxation has been found in all cases to be obnoxious, and this particular mode, I apprehend, is calculated to produce very pernicious effects.
• Victor thought there would be more logic in thus disposing of old people with an established claim for making themselves universally obnoxious.
• All taxes raise the prices of the articles taxed, but those are most felt and most obnoxious which fall on personal property, or on persons themselves.
• The government, in this case, generally becomes more severe, and certainly more obnoxious.
• This last is the measure most obnoxious to all persons.
• The right of asylum accorded to some churches was one of the most obnoxious privileges among those of which the revolution of 1789 rid France.
• If she was bound to make herself obnoxious, she might have waited till the Olympians were sitting in conclave, or at least at home again.
• Since he had enlisted himself with the opposite party, he had been guilty of no violence or rigor which might render him obnoxious.
• The persons accused, and all the other obnoxious ministers, had withdrawn or had concealed themselves.
• Then, as if freeing herself from something as obnoxious as was the rain, she threw back her head and shook that, too.
• His Grace was one of the first to denounce the obnoxious system of patronage, and he lent his great influence and high social position to the party of which Dr.
• The reason why a man gets roughly handled, in nine cases out of ten, is not because he is obnoxious or offensive, but because other people are harsh and indifferent.
• Bismarck at once repeated word for word the obnoxious passage of his speech.
• To do this, however, would be to bring the obnoxious Constitution actually into force, and would mean, so to speak, a declaration of war against Prussia.
• Kings, even such as are truly kings, may and ought to bear the freedom of subjects that are obnoxious to them.
• Usually she had good audiences but occasionally would fall into the hands of persons obnoxious to the community and the meeting would be a failure.
• It has become a somewhat obnoxious term, though originally it was not so, I fawncy.
• And unfortunately for me, I am the father of a slave, a word too obnoxious to be spoken by a fugitive slave.

Similar words containing OBNOXIOU without suffix s

obnoxiously23 unobnoxious20 obnoxiousness22 obnoxiousnesses24

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