Learn A Word: Obnoxious

I went out for lunch with a couple of colleagues last Friday. A bright young woman joined us, who was a former colleague of theirs at another company. Or, I should say that I joined their lunch gathering, since apparently they had planned for it.

Anyway, we got introduced to each other, and the first thing I noticed about her was her unusually fast speed of speaking. I was happy to be able to follow her speech. Soon, I noticed another thing about her speech - the frequent use of the word "obnoxious". I roughly remembered it was a bad word, but not exactly. As she kept saying it, the sound of this word, the expression on her face, and the responses of my colleagues all convinced me that this should be a very bad word.

Later that day, I looked it up on Wiktionary, and, yes, it means "Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible." I hope that I will not be described as "obnoxious" by any means.

S.D
2014.6.29

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• How do I select the sub-category now? -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (31 bytes) () 06/29/2014 postreply 23:57:49

• 论坛改版后，[帖子归属]也随风而去了，不知是否能修复？ -紫君- ♀ (24 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 08:08:19

• 发帖时先点左边分类到子坛发可归属,但点击率只显示子坛的比如松松每周一笑85次只显示笑话幽默的0,真气人! -京燕花园- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 09:42:25

• 我刚刚去发了一个帖子，看不到[帖子归属]选项了。 -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 09:56:27

• 屏幕左边“美语世界相关讨论”先点个子类,在子类发帖,比如"英文歌曲",贴子就存在那里,虽然右边drop Manu归属选不了 -京燕花园- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 11:41:12

• 谢谢告知，我刚刚又去重发了。 -紫君- ♀ (316 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 12:27:04

• I hope that I never need to use the word "obnoxious" for anythi -南山松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 17:44:06

• A word that sounds crispy! -聚曦亭- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/01/2014 postreply 00:25:43

• she is a little bit obnoxious(^.^) -LinMu- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 15:16:29

• She is too negative. -~叶子~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 20:37:08