Definitions
causing disapproval or protest
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin obnoxiōsus (“subject to someone, under someone’s authority”) + English -ous (suffix denoting the presence of a quality in any degree, typically an abundance). Obnoxiōsus is derived from obnoxius (“guilty, punishable; subject to someone, under someone’s authority”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’, forming adjectives from nouns).
Used in a sentence
“Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.”
“The disturbance had commenced, like those of England, in the refusal of the parliament to sanction an obnoxious tax; but here all resemblance ended.”
“For my part, thumb-marks [in books] I find very obnoxious—far more so than the spoiling of the binding.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Highly annoying”9 letters
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