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? -衝浪潛水員- ♂ (31 bytes) () 06/29/2014 postreply 23:57:49

• 論壇改版後，[帖子歸屬]也隨風而去了，不知是否能修複？ -紫君- ♀ (24 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 08:08:19

• 發帖時先點左邊分類到子壇發可歸屬,但點擊率隻顯示子壇的比如鬆鬆每周一笑85次隻顯示笑話幽默的0,真氣人! -京燕花園- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 09:42:25

• 我剛剛去發了一個帖子，看不到[帖子歸屬]選項了。 -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 09:56:27

• 屏幕左邊“美語世界相關討論”先點個子類,在子類發帖,比如"英文歌曲",貼子就存在那裏,雖然右邊drop Manu歸屬選不了 -京燕花園- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 11:41:12

• 謝謝告知，我剛剛又去重發了。 -紫君- ♀ (316 bytes) () 06/30/2014 postreply 12:27:04

• I hope that I never need to use the word "obnoxious" for anythi -南山鬆- ♀ (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. -~葉子~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 20:37:08