If you describe something or someone as ~, you mean that you find them extremely unpleasant. (LITERARY)
Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks...
His ~ reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
= noxious
ADJ: usu ADJ n
If you describe something or someone as ~, you mean that you find them extremely unpleasant. (LITERARY)
Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks...
His ~ reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
= noxious
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012