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Stinking

adjective

Very bad. Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky. "It's a stinking world"

Offensively malodorous. Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly. "The kitchen smelled really funky"

Stink

verb

(past stank; past part. stunk; pres. part. stinking)

Be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance.

Smell badly and offensively. Synonym: reek.

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... spoke, the officers came and took me away, and put me into a nasty, stinking prison, the smell whereof got so into my nose and throat that it very much annoyed me. But that day the Lord's power sounded so in their ears that they were amazed at the voice. At night they took me before the mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs of the town. They examined ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IX. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... week after his return to Trieste, Burton wrote to Mr. A. G. Ellis: "It is very kind and friendly of you to write about The Scented Garden MSS. I really rejoice to hear that you and Mr. Bendall have escaped alive from those ground floor abominations stinking of half rotten leather. I know the two Paris MSS. [of The Scented Garden] (one with its blundering name): they are the merest abridgments, both compressing Chapter 21 of 500 pages (Arabic) into a few lines. I must now write to Gotha and Copenhagen in order to find out if the copies there ...

— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright

... stories? I know all the stories about England,' said the Chaplain. 'I know that terains run underneath their bazaars there, and as for their streets stinking with mota kahars, only this morning I was nearly killed by Duggan Sahib's mota-kahar. That young man is ...

— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... bite on our flesh. It feeds first on the leaves and vines often killing them in a few days. Later it may cluster and feed on the unripe squashes or pumpkins in such numbers as to completely cover them. Every country boy or girl has seen these stinking bugs on pumpkins in the corn field, at corn cutting time in ...

— An Elementary Study of Insects • Leonard Haseman

... Ah, mesdames, what do you think of one who goes forth dry, with clean sabots, that I, myself, have washed, and behold him returned, apres un tout p'tit quart d'heure, stinking with filth? Bah! it's he that will catch it when his father comes home!" And meanwhile the mother's hand descends, lest justice should ...

— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd

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