obnoxious

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious.

   “Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.”

2. sıfat Unjustly disagreeable, argumentative or objectionable; brazenly rude.

   “He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.”

3. sıfat Exposed or vulnerable to something, especially harm or injury.

   “Thinke but hovv poore thou vvaſt, hovv obnoxious; / VVhom a ſmall lumpe of fleſh could poyſon thus.”

4. sıfat Causing harm or injury; harmful, hurtful, injurious.

   “It [the crocodile] is the moſt obnoxious of all ſea monſters, […]”

5. sıfat Deserving of blame or punishment; blameworthy, guilty.

   “[A]s our par[ti]cular Perſons vvere not obnoxious, ſo if any Engliſh or Dutch Ships came thither, perhaps vve might have an Opportunity to load our Goods, and get Paſſage to ſome other Place in India, nearer Home.”

6. sıfat Under the authority or power of someone; subject, subordinate; hence, deferential, submissive, subservient.

   “[M]ost of them (the fellowes) being sneaking and obnoxious, they did run rather with the temper of the warden, than stand against him, to keep themselves in and enjoy their comfortable importances.”

7. sıfat Followed by to: likely to do something.

   “[O]ur corruption novv is more obnoxious and apter to admitte and inuite ſuch poyſonous ingredients, and temporall reſpects, then in thoſe purer times, […]”