Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: obnoxious
IPA transcription: [ɑbn'ɑkʃəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: objectionable, obnoxious
    Meaning: causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
Usage examples
  • An obnoxious member of society
  • Then, I said, we shall have to obliterate many obnoxious passages, beginning with the verses,
  • It was by no means wonderful, then, that, after becoming possessor of the united fortunes of his father and his uncle, Henry Dunbar should keep aloof from a place that had always been obnoxious to him.
  • Note also, that, when the multitudes came to the prophet, and all, with the classes most obnoxious to the rest, the publicans and the soldiers, asked what he would have them do--thus plainly recognizing that something was required of them--his instruction was throughout in the same direction: they must send away their sins; and each must begin with the fault that lay next him.