Crossword-Solution: NOXIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Noxious | a. | Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. |
| Noxious | a. | Guilty; criminal. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “NOXIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Physically destructive | 1 answer |
| Like substances in city air | 1 answer |
| Like poisonous fumes | 1 answer |
| Harmful, poisonous | 1 answer |
| Harmful, like fumes | 1 answer |
| Harmful to one's health | 1 answer |
| miasmic | 3 answers |
| causing harm | 6 answers |
| GOOD (ant.) | 13 answers |
| insalubrious | 16 answers |
| Toxic ___ | 18 answers |
| Inedible | 21 answers |
| pestilent | 24 answers |
| Unwholesome. | 25 answers |
| causing disease | 26 answers |
| Noisome | 27 answers |
| Virulent | 28 answers |
| Deathly | 39 answers |
| Poisonous | 39 answers |
| Fatal | 49 answers |
| festering | 55 answers |
| pernicious | 56 answers |
| unhealthy | 58 answers |
| destructive | 61 answers |
| Distasteful | 71 answers |
| harmful | 74 answers |
| detrimental | 76 answers |
| Foul | 93 answers |
| B-o-r-ing! | 95 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with NOXIOUS (5)
Our purer essence then will overcome Thir noxious vapour, or enur’d not feel, Or chang’d at length, and to the place conformd In temper and in nature, will receive Familiar the fierce heat, and void of pain; This horror will grow milde, this darkness light, Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting, since our present lot appeers For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to our selves more woe.
They at his sight grew mild, 310 Nor sleeping him nor waking harmed; his walk The fiery serpent fled and noxious worm; The lion and fierce tiger glared aloof.
And our philosopher follows the same analogy-he is like a plant which, having proper nurture, must necessarily grow and mature into all virtue, but, if sown and planted in an alien soil, becomes the most noxious of all weeds, unless he be preserved by some divine power.
But Sewell went on: "The novelists might be the greatest possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation, but for the most part they have been and are altogether noxious." This seemed sense to Lapham; but Bromfield Corey asked: "But what if life as it is isn't amusing? Aren't we to be amused?" "Not to our hurt," sturdily answered the minister.
The following is the mode of ridding it of this noxious ingredient: Dissolve, in about six or seven quarts of filtered water, about five ounces of potash; when dissolved, wash with the solution an ordinary buckskin; when it has been well stirred in the liquid, the water becomes very soapy, owing to the combination of the potash with the oily matters contained in the skin.
Quotes with NOXIOUS (3)
A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a min…
I looked around the room, at everyone who inhabited the space, person and monster, slave and master, aware we were in the madness together, swirling around in the same mess, all out to get something, a piece of our own pie. But I knew that in the midst of that noxious stew, coming to terms with our poisons was only the beginning. Ever forward, Cecile’s voice replayed in my mind. Ever forward.
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2024).