: having a heavy offensive smell
a fetid swamp
fetidly
adverb
fetidness
noun
Examples of fetid in a Sentence
a fetid pool of water
the fetid odor of rotting vegetables
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The stumps of dead Joshua trees jutted from the fetid ground cover, while a few others, still alive, appeared anemic and were adorned in wispy strands of plastic debris and dust.
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
Not so happy are people trying to swim around the stuff or breathing in the fetid aroma of drying mounds of sargassum.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
Only one of them has a fetish for the fetid stink of porta potties, but the other one has their weird kinks too.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
During the previous effort, squalid and fetid camps grew on the border and were marred by gang violence.
—Colleen Long, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
Not so happy are people trying to swim around the stuff or breathing in the fetid aroma of drying mounds of sargassum.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
Only one of them has a fetish for the fetid stink of porta potties, but the other one has their weird kinks too.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
During the previous effort, squalid and fetid camps grew on the border and were marred by gang violence.
—Colleen Long, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for fetid
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“Fetid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetid. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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