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Adjective: noisome  noy-sum
  1. Causing or able to cause nausea
    - nauseating, nauseous, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile, vomitous [US], loathful [archaic]
     
  2. Offensively malodorous
    "a noisome odour";
    - fetid, foetid [Brit], foul, foul-smelling, funky [N. Amer, informal], smelly, stinking, ill-scented

See also: gut-wrenching, ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous [Brit, Cdn, non-standard], minging [Brit, informal], pongy [Brit, informal], stinky [informal], unpleasant-smelling, unwholesome, whiffy [Brit, informal]