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noxious

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Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.

Guilty; criminal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. William O. Douglas

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. William Howard Taft

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. Ernestine Rose

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. Edmund Burke

Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. Edmund Burke

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. Walker Percy

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