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Definition of Noxiously
1. Adverb. In a detrimental manner.
Partainyms: Detrimental, Harmful, Noxious
Antonyms: Harmlessly
Definition of Noxiously
1. Adverb. In a noxious manner. ¹
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Definition of Noxiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noxiously
Literary usage of Noxiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A dictionary of the Greek and English languages: with a table of proper by Johannes Pervanoglu (1894)
"... o«y,bandy-legged.croock-legged. adv. injuriously, harmfully, noxiously,
perniciously />?.ii.jir,w to hurt, to harm, to injure to offend to damage, ..."
2. A view of the creation of the world, in illustration of the Mosaic record by Charles James Burton (1836)
"When Adam was about to transgress, he might have been tempted to think so: but,
the mixture of evil with good destroys, or noxiously affects, the enjoyment ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"... and what must be held to be noxiously selfish and injurious to the community, —what
employment of our income, in fact, sound economic doctrines would ..."
4. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Girls can be made not only less noxiously sentimental and impulsive, but their
conduct tends to become more thoughtful: they can be made to feel ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"Our bread, our cheese, our butter, our milk, our tea, our coffee, our beer, our
wine, our spirits, are all noxiously adulterated ; and when we fall ill, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... millions of dollars are wanted and mimt be ¡/at, how could they be extracted
out of those buttoned pockets at once less noxiously and less vexatiously ? ..."
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