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Noisy   /nˈɔɪzi/   Listen
Noisy

adjective
(compar. noisier; superl. noisiest)
1.
Full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds.  "A small noisy dog"
2.
Attracting attention by showiness or bright colors.






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"Noisy" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the piano. He turned back to the beginning of the score and began reading it, at first silently, then humming unintelligible orchestral parts as he was able to infer them from the transcription; finally with noisy outbursts upon the piano, to which din Novelli contributed with one hand reached down over the conductor's shoulder. Paula standing in the curve of the instrument, her elbows on the lid, followed them from her copy of the score. ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... romancer, has made use of this idea in his novel called Le Disciple. Only it is not a slave, but a young girl whom he pretends to love, that is the subject of the moral philosopher's experiment; and a noisy war has been waged round the book in France. Hawthorne would plainly have seized the romantic essence of the idea and would have avoided ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson • Walter Raleigh

... though anxious to attract his notice. Another dropped her veil significantly as he drew near. The millionaire seemed to become a smaller man as he glanced over his shoulder. The lady who had been recently divorced bent over her plate. A group of noisy young fellows talking together about a Stock Exchange deal, suddenly ceased their clamour of voices as he passed. A man sitting alone, with a drawn face, deliberately concealed himself behind a newspaper, and an aldermanic-looking gentleman who was entertaining ...
— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... including myself who had never crossed the line, into the forecastle, to remove one of the water casks. We had no sooner descended the ladder than the fore-scuttle was closed and fastened, and we were caught like rats in a trap. Preparations of a noisy character were now made on deck for ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper

... at Brussels—spinning a web that should be stout enough to entrap the noisy, blundering republicans at the Hague, yet so delicate as to go through the finest dialectical needle. Time was to show whether subtilty or bluntness was the ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


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