as in stinking
having an unpleasant smell
the cellar will need to be cleared of several malodorous piles of garbage
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Recent Examples of malodorous
Descending through a malodorous entrance in the Roman Forum, the team waded through the sewer until the water current became too powerful.
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Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Public stations were expensive to maintain and quickly became dirty and malodorous.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Jan. 2025
Come for Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb, sweaty and malodorous and razor-sharp; stay for some of the best-structured storytelling on television.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
Gary Oldman remains as delightful as ever as the malodorous but brilliant Jackson Lamb.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Public stations were expensive to maintain and quickly became dirty and malodorous.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Jan. 2025
Come for Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb, sweaty and malodorous and razor-sharp; stay for some of the best-structured storytelling on television.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
Gary Oldman remains as delightful as ever as the malodorous but brilliant Jackson Lamb.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malodorous
Adjective
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This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
22 Dec. 2019
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Muttaiah said the man inside the stinking manhole was working without any safety equipment — no gloves, no shoes, no supplemental oxygen.—
Joanna Slater,
Washington Post,
16 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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For its part, the NFL says those markets are ripe for monetary distortion or manipulation.—
Contessa Brewer,Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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From these experiences, Austen must have concluded that throwing together a play was a ripe scenario for generating drama and tension between a close set of characters in her fiction.—
Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Their stories include the reasons that kept them from evacuating and then the harrowing odysseys that took some of them through fetid streets of flood waters, others to the nightmare that was the Superdome or the Convention Center, and still others across impassable bridges and freeways.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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Harold had exclaimed when the fetid, turquoise sea had at last come into view.—
Nicole Krauss,
The Atlantic,
6 July 2025
Adjective
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Jessica Post, who lives near Auburn and was sitting near the right field foul pole with her sister, Deanna Ritter of Roseville, was happy the A’s had put the flags to half-staff.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Then second baseman Máximo Acosta chased down the ball in foul territory and threw wildly past third.—
Steve Gorten,
Miami Herald,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Avoid adding smelly meats, fruit rinds or other sweet-smelling food scraps to your compost.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Sep. 2025
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Once cool, pour it into a spray bottle and lightly mist the smelly surfaces.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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This $8 set comes with four zippered pouches that can separate dirty, wet, or stinky shoes from the rest of your belongings.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This behavior is disgusting and they should be fired.—
Zach LaChance,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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And yet … those conversations are also entertainingly provocative, and they’re accompanied by some of the scariest and most disgusting scenes the series has delivered up to now.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Or find a less filthy campmate.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Sep. 2025
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Away from a filthy Superdome and Convention Center where they had been holed up for days.—
Suzette Hackney,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Malodorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malodorous. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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