Example sentences for: obnoxious

How can you use “obnoxious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If surly is a product of class contempt backwards, obnoxious is a thoroughly democratic error; everybody got it wrong.

  • 20 Dates , which gives obnoxious heterosexual Jewish males a worse name than we deserve.

  • Gryffindor is where the series' hero, Harry, is assigned, and Slytherin is where its murderous villain, Lord Voldemort, was assigned when he was a boy (it now houses Harry's obnoxious rival, Draco Malfoy, and Malfoy's half-wit sidekicks, Crabbe and Goyle).

  • Pans for this tale of four high-school boys and their quest to watch a Kiss concert: "loud, vulgar, cartoonish, obnoxious, dizzying, disposable and more than a little bit shrill" (Jim DeRogatis, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Highlight: a tongue-cam point of view from inside Gene Simmons' mouth.

  • The program thought it could do this by a) making us watch Pepsi-sponsored movies featuring anti-drug propaganda and shrewd product placement; b) reinforcing the most obnoxious cliques on campus by choosing all the "All Star" officers from a popular group of athletes and cheerleaders (on average, B and C students who drank, smoked, and skipped class); c) doing everything possible to conceal the fact that high school's purpose is education; and d) giving us the opportunity to buy as much "All Star" merchandise as our parents could afford.


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