(a.) Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, they would get a prolonged dose of noisome substances while watching fey and gentle films like the first half of The Sound of Music or the whole of Love Actually .
(2) And there certainly things wrong with 6 Music, not least the noisome presence of George Lamb, who seems to have been employed by the BBC after a concerted and ultimately fruitful search to find a DJ more irritating than Radio One's Chris Moyles, an impressive feat he achieves by the expedient of continually lapsing into faux Jamaican patois.
Unwholesome
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That we demand a contest as satisfyingly unwholesome and rancorous as Cain and Abel, not something as nauseatingly wholesome and harmonious as Abel and Cole?
(2) In the southern forest areas, dried fish, groundnuts and oil palm products often carry unwholesome quantities of aflatoxin.
(3) In that sense all stories are written backwards - they are supposed to begin with the facts and develop from there, but in reality they begin with a journalist's point of view, a conception... All this is difficult and even rather unwholesome to explain to the layman, because he gets the impression that you are saying that truth does not matter and that you are publicly admitting what he long ago suspected, that journalism is a way of 'cooking' the facts.
(4) Clinicians must evaluate these systems as to their wholesome or unwholesome impact on a particular health issue or problem, seeking corrective as well as preventive measures.
(5) Like other unwholesome aspects of the Anthropocene, we mostly respond to mass extinction with stuplimity: the aesthetic experience in which astonishment is united with boredom, such that we overload on anxiety to the point of outrage-outage.
(6) The influence can be strong in lasting relationships; it can be either wholesome or unwholesome.