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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, crude, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, exposed, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, invidious, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obscene, odious, offensive, open, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, prone, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsive, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, sensitive, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, squalid, stinking, subject, susceptible, terrible, too bad, unclean, unmentionable, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
Dictionary Results for obnoxious:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
obnoxious
    adj 1: causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and
           objectionable person" [syn: objectionable, obnoxious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Obnoxious \Ob*nox"ious\ ([o^]b*n[o^]k"sh[u^]s), a. [L. obnoxius;
   ob (see Ob-) + noxius hurtful. See Noxious.]
   1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with
      to.
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            The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to
            their particular laws.                --Bacon.
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            Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public
            than to be obnoxious to any private purse. --Milton.
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            Obnoxious, first or last,
            To basest things                      --Milton.
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   2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible;
      blameworthy. "The contrived and interested schemes of . .
      . obnoxious authors." --Bp. Fell.
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            All are obnoxious, and this faulty land,
            Like fainting Hester, does before you stand
            Watching your scepter.                --Waller.
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   3. Very offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious
      statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. --Burke.
      [1913 Webster] -- Ob*nox"ious*ly, adv. --
      Ob*nox"ious*ness, n. --South.
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