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obnoxious

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1. obnoxious - Adjective

2. obnoxious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.

Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.

Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. Ulysses S. Grant

Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious. Leo Burnett

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. Billie Joe Armstrong

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us. Hugo Black

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. William Feather

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