noisome

• 'Take care I don't do the same thing to your father,' and like a noisome and dangerous animal he crept back in the shadow of the hedge and disappeared Aha!' —  The Bishop's Secret
• The entrance was some thirty feet above the ground--dank, noisome, and forbidding; the end was near the roots Of course the old chestnut was dying; but that did not concern the noctules. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
• Such places are so hideous and so noisome, and yet there are those who are born and die there, bound hand and foot when they are born, that they may be bound hand and foot to die!" —  His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
• My lower deck isn't noisome, and I saw to the finger-bowls myself My people talk like that sometimes in Little Russia,' said Dragomiroff. —  A Diversity of Creatures
• The penal institutions were investigated--noisome holes in which were crowded wretched prisoners, many of whom had been incarcerated for no ascertainable reason. —  The United States Since the Civil War

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