adj.
- 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).
- Archaic. Exposed to harm, injury, or evil: "The town ... now lies obnoxious to its foes" (John Bunyan).
- Archaic. Deserving of or liable to censure.
[Latin obnoxiōsus, subordinate, from obnoxius, subject, liable : ob-, to; see ob- + noxa, injury.]
obnoxiously ob·nox'ious·ly adv.obnoxiousness ob·nox'ious·ness n.
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