Found 2 hits - Term: obnoxiously, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
obnoxious \obnox"ious\ o^bno^k"shu^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 -- obnox"iously, adv. --
obnox"iousness, n. --south.
1913 webster
see also:
ob- noxious obnox"iously obnox"iousness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
obnoxiously
adv : in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more
offensively intellectually arrogant sentences" syn: offensively,
objectionably
see also:
offensively objectionably
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