obnoxious

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ob·nox·ious /əbˈnɒkʃəs $ -ˈnɑːk-/ adjectiveadj

UNPLEASANTvery offensive, unpleasant, or rude 惹人討厭的；可憎的；粗暴無禮的

She’s really obnoxious.

她這人真討厭。

an obnoxious idea

令人作嘔的念頭

obnoxious odours

難聞的氣味

—obnoxiously adverbadv

—obnoxiousness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

obnoxious• And, and, oh, he was just obnoxious.• I have been in restaurants where the human customers have been loud, rude and obnoxious.• The slime they exude is obnoxious and slippery, and has the stench of rotting fish.• Once formed, the joints were internally sealed with pitch to prevent the escape of any obnoxious gases or liquids.• Eddie is an obnoxious, insecure creep.• And she had this really, really obnoxious look on her face.• obnoxious sewage smells• They were more often obnoxious than not, impatient with me because my services had been essentially imposed upon them.• This was particularly obnoxious to the truculent Arista.

Origin obnoxious

(1500-1600) Latin obnoxius, from noxa “harm”

ob·nox·ious adjectiveadj

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