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
Come for Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb, sweaty and malodorous and razor-sharp; stay for some of the best-structured storytelling on television.
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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
Descending through a malodorous entrance in the Roman Forum, the team waded through the sewer until the water current became too powerful.
—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
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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
Descending through a malodorous entrance in the Roman Forum, the team waded through the sewer until the water current became too powerful.
—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
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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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This fourth-generation farm is ripe for the picking—butterbeans, sunflowers, pumpkins, and more.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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The moment could be ripe for another look at gene-editing embryos that could be taken to term.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
6 Aug. 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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That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.—
Graham Techler,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Nationals put up a four-spot against Verlander, the backbreaker being CJ Abrams’ towering two-run shot off the right-field foul pole.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
10 Aug. 2025
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Guests will enjoy the experience free from disruptive behavior, foul language, obscene gestures, fighting, unruly conduct or inconsiderate actions.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The smelly, hairy animals with terrible eyesight are actually a type of mammal known as a collared peccary.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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Words for different smells, or things that are smelly.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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Kruse and her co-conspirators are now on their fourth different set of lawyers in this dispute, and this is a disgusting publicity stunt by new counsel, as evidenced by the fact that the complaint and press release were sent to the press before the complaint was served.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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The series sets the various human and humanoid segments of its cast on a direct course with the distinctly inhuman alien flora and fauna on the ship – there are some inventive little monsters aboard, disgusting and harrowing in their own special ways – to great effect.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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One of the canines was wrapped in a spring protruding from a broken, threadbare couch, and yelping for help when cops arrived at the filthy apartment in the Belmont section of the Bronx on Aug. 4, officials said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
14 Aug. 2025
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An image of the inside of the bunker, released by the sheriff’s office, showed a filthy mattress in a corner, a folding chair and a fan.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
26 July 2025
Adjective
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Having gone in the tank for Griffin, North Carolina’s highest courts are a noisome example of why partisanship ought to have no place in judicial selection.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
13 May 2025
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To question the sincerity of the president’s rhetoric—and that of his party—is not to dismiss the challenge posed by the various noisome currents of antidemocratic sentiment and behavior running through our politics like the effluence of overflowing sewers.—
Gerard Baker,
WSJ,
7 Nov. 2022
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“Malodorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malodorous. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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