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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Obnoxious \Ob*nox"ious\ ([o^]b*n[o^]k"sh[u^]s), adjective [L. obnoxius; ob (see {Ob-}) + noxius hurtful. See {Noxious}.]
1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. --Bacon.
Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. --Milton.
Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things --Milton.
2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy. ''The contrived and interested schemes of . . . obnoxious authors.'' --Bp. Fell.
All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter. --Waller.
3. Very offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. --Burke. -- {Ob*nox"ious*ly}, adverb -- {Ob*nox"ious*ness}, noun --South.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
obnoxious
adjective: causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person" [syn: {objectionable}, {unpleasant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "obnoxious": abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, crude, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, exposed, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, invidious, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obscene, odious, offensive, open, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, prone, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsive, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, sensitive, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, squalid, stinking, subject, susceptible, terrible, too bad, unclean, unmentionable, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
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