(a.) Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
(a.) Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
(a.) Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) They occupy that weird middle ground between anonymity and celebrity; they're from well-regarded restaurants, but they're not at the level where, say, James Martin can be obnoxious at them on Saturday Kitchen.
(2) Only in recent years has serious attention been given to the control of chemotherapy-induced emesis (CIE) which is to the patient a most obnoxious side-effect.
(3) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(4) This paper describes examples of adolescent behavior which parents and school personnel find obnoxious.
(5) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(6) The interview, broadcast on 1 October, and the BBC's decision to invite the party's leader, Nick Griffin, on to Question Time next week indicated the BBC was "sadly succumbing" to those who "in Griffin's obnoxious words, 'defend rights for whites with well-directed boots and fists'," he adds.
(7) Perhaps it was because, despite being the first portable music player, it wasn't as easy to lug around as the MP3 player; its chunky dimensions compelled it to be worn clipped to a belt, creating the danger that it would unclip itself – which it did with obnoxious regularity – and crash to the ground, disgorging its batteries.
(8) If Mitchell may seem a little rebarbative to some tastes, he would have to try hard to be more obnoxious than John Tully, who has demanded his resignation .
(9) Echoing one of his most famous early speeches, Bin Laden told “brothers ... in the Islamic Maghreb” their job was “to uproot the obnoxious tree by concentrating on its American trunk”, and to avoid being occupied with the local security forces.
(10) Instead, the BBC is sadly succumbing to those who would, again in Nick Griffin's obnoxious words, "defend rights for whites with well-directed boots and fists".
(11) The unspoken rule is that pedestrians and bikes give way to cars even at a zebra crossing – which is obnoxious, not to mention dangerous.
(12) I think that we would make more progress if, instead of complaining about sexualisation – a divisive and nebulous concept – we fought sexism, which is more easily comprehended and is at the root of almost everything troubling and obnoxious.
(13) The only free expression worth anything in a democracy is the right for the person whose views one regards as most obnoxious to be heard.
(14) His personality is obnoxious and he should not be feted as a role model for young people.” The protest will be at the SSE Arena between 5.30pm to 7pm, organisers said.
(15) It seemed particularly obnoxious for him to have used a homophobic slur while starring in a play about the vexed, affectionate and mutually dependent relationship between two men.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Of course their unspeakably obnoxious stage manner was not to everybody’s taste.
(17) Dunkin' Donuts was cutting hot chocolate, while Starbucks obnoxiously announced it would not bother to comply for months at least.
(18) Snoring is a common obnoxious disturbance in human society.
(19) RMT is in consultation with our taxi members over the possibility of a boycott of this obnoxious and abusive character.” An RMT spokesman said it was a matter for LBC to decide whether to continue to employ Mellor as a presenter, but added: “If he’s supposed to be presenting a balanced debate there’s a question about whether he is a fit person to present the programme.” LBC had no immediate comment.
(20) "There is a lot of energy and it's brilliant to be part of it because I know that back in the day I would have dragged myself through this and been as loud as hell, smoking two cigarettes at once and being really obnoxious.
(a.) Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds.
(a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons.
(n.) The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(2) New offensive coach Tony Sparano was also a fan of Wildcat packages when he was head coach in Miami.
(3) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
(4) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(5) The central hypothesis of our study, then, was that psychotic men, charged with misdemeanor offenses, would be incarcerated for significantly longer periods of time, prior to trial, than their nonpsychotic fellows.
(6) It's not that Thompson isn't a a very good player – he and Steph Curry have been running one of the most potent offensives in the NBA over the last two years or so and he's obviously a much better defensive player than Love.
(7) It’s no good me swearing on a Bible; I don’t share your faith.” Morrison said: “I will do it, Ray, but I think it’s a very offensive thing for you to ask me to do but I’ll do it if that’s what you require...if you insist I will.” Hadley did not persist with the demand.
(8) The mean number of different types of drugs "ever used" was 5.87, and the mean number of drug sale offenses was 4.4.
(9) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
(10) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
(11) Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
(12) Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by the US-led coalition have launched attacks on Islamic State east of Mosul as the campaign to oust the militants stepped up with three offensives across Iraq and Syria.
(13) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
(14) UN envoy Staffan De Mistura halted the latest Syria talks on 3 February, because of major differences between the two sides, exacerbated by increased aerial bombings and a wide military offensive by Syrian troops and their allies under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
(15) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".
(16) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
(17) However, the growing offensive against the left by the pro-capitalist wing of the Labour party inevitably had a damaging impact on the LPYS.
(18) In April 2009, he launched the first concerted offensive against the extremists, routing them in the Swat valley in the north-west, before starting the continuing operations in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal area, which runs along the Afghan border.
(19) The so-called “709 crackdown” has alarmed activists and foreign observers who view the offensive as part of a broader bid to consolidate political control by an increasingly authoritarian leadership.
(20) Since the beginning of December, MNLA leaders have been broadcasting their plans to start an offensive, led by the head of the movement's military wing, Colonel Mohamed Ag Najim.