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/əbˈnɒkʃəs/ · adjective
Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious..
Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
The disturbance had commenced, like those of England, in the refusal of the parliament to sanction an obnoxious tax; but here all resemblance ended.
For my part, thumb-marks [in books] I find very obnoxious—far more so than the spoiling of the binding.
Someone jolted my arm and the contents of my glass spilled onto an immaculate white dress. I felt obnoxious.
I would have been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.
He felt obnoxious and knew perfectly well that he would have no explanation whatsoever had anyone discovered him, but she looked so alluring, so untroubled, so fortunate, that his only concern was the terrible crack the shutter made...quiet as it was.
He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
I always feel out of place when I am around people. I feel obnoxious if I laugh or talk too much.
Use obnoxious when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Obnoxious means Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious..
Common synonyms include aggravating, aggy, annoying, wretched.
Possible antonyms include unobnoxious, acceptable, agreeable, amiable.
Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
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