obnoxious

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Last night Palin appeared to have mastered the art of George W. Bush style gibberish --- obnoxious, confident and dumb.

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  1. adjective Very annoying or objectionable; offensive or odious: "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution” (Ulysses S. Grant).
  2. adjective Archaic Exposed to harm, injury, or evil: "The town ... now lies obnoxious to its foes” (John Bunyan).
  3. adjective Archaic Deserving of or liable to censure.

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  • Last night Palin appeared to have mastered the art of George W. Bush style gibberish --- obnoxious, confident and dumb. —  Hullabaloo
  • Kelly is rude, obnoxious, and lies or embellishes what she actually says to others. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • For everyone's sake, get off your ridiculous, obnoxious, arrogant, self-righteous high horse, & quit inflicting your oppressive, fascist views on everyone else. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • Thrilla in Manila argues that the fight's promotions were so obnoxious, the race-class-and-gender politics of the sport so backwards and oppressive, that neither Ali nor Frazier could emerge intact. —  PopMatters
  • They have the most obnoxious, arrogant fanbase in the entire world. —  Athletics Nation
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  1. Latin obnoxiōsus, subordinate, from obnoxius, subject, liable : ob-, to; see ob- + noxa, injury; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese obnoxio, from Latin obnoxius, subject or liable (to punishment or to guilt), subject, submissive, exposed, exposed to danger, weak, etc., from ob, against, + noxa, hurt, harm, injury, punishment, later noxius, hurtful: see noxious.
 

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