obnoxious的意思|obnoxious的解释-里氏词典

obnoxious [әb'nɒkʃәs]

a. 可憎的, 使人不愉快的, 令人讨厌的

obnoxious

[ adj ]
causing disapproval or protest
<adj.all>
a vulgar and objectionable person

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.

The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to
their particular laws. --Bacon.

Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public
than to be obnoxious to any private purse. --Milton.

Obnoxious, first or last,
To basest things --Milton.

2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible;
blameworthy. ``The contrived and interested schemes of . .
. obnoxious authors.'' --Bp. Fell.

All are obnoxious, and this faulty land,
Like fainting Hester, does before you stand
Watching your scepter. --Waller.

3. Very offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious
statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. --Burke.
※ -- {Ob*nox"ious*ly}, adv. --
{Ob*nox"ious*ness}, n. --South.

"The Schweppe Realtors stayed in touch, but not in an obnoxious way," says Mr. Besse.
"He wasn't obnoxious or aggressive," said one person familiar with the meeting.
Claude Morgan, an employee of the Maui Waui T-shirt store, previously forced to lower the volume of a "boom-box" tape player out front, has launched a more obnoxious counterattack.
For all this, plus a smattering of more subtle pranks and obnoxious phone calls, as well as a catered party capping it all, a group of Mr. Scott's "friends" paid Amazing Events $400.
"There are people who are quite obnoxious and are in the habit of using foul language," Ballan said. "These people are going to feel like they can be as obnoxious as they wish.
"There are people who are quite obnoxious and are in the habit of using foul language," Ballan said. "These people are going to feel like they can be as obnoxious as they wish.
In a memorandum to the Office of Management and Budget, Hodel lamented the "particularly obnoxious" differences in treatment of former executive branch employees and members of Congress and their staffs.
This good health seems to be universal; even the pests keep off, as if the leaves contain something obnoxious.
He says people find the leech's obnoxious and repugnant side fascinating.
The process escalates as parents become angry and essentially compete with their screaming children to see who can be more obnoxious.
I find it offensive and obnoxious.
"This was a Banana Republic-style succession; it's an obnoxious exercise in raw political clout of the sort we haven't had here lately," said Terrence Brunner, executive director of the Better Government Association, a legal watchdog group.
There's an obnoxious, sleazeball burglar, played to the hilt by Steven Marcus, who has the effrontery to demand that Mickey get him off, even though his unsolicited jail-cell confession has been overheard by two policemen.
Al Pacino, in the best coverup since Albert Finney's Hercule Poirot in "Murder on the Orient Express," is properly obnoxious as Big Boy Caprice.
"It was getting pretty obnoxious," he says.
Says Bert C. Roberts Jr., MCI's president: "Nothing has come without our being as aggressive, obnoxious, any word you can think of, to get the Bell operating companies" to comply with the court's order.
Heightening the tension were allegations from a second accuser, a former Thomas aide named Angela Wright, that he engaged in what she termed "annoying and obnoxious" behavior, including pressuring her for dates and making inappropriate comments.

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