rancidity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rancidity
Noun
  • Coach Billy Napier’s team blended play-calling staleness, horrendous clock management, defensive containment issues and overall immaturity.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There was seemingly a healthy respect between the players, like opposing superstars Virat Kohli and Babar Azam sharing a laugh in an enduring image, in what was a snapshot of the possibilities when the stench of politics is absent.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The family claimed their house was plagued with blood-curdling screams, foul stenches and other terrors: Jack Smurl and one of his daughters had been tossed around the house, as was the family’s pet German shepherd.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even on the gaming front, the Xenomorphs are going strong with great Alien games like Aliens: Dark Descent and Aliens: Fireteam Elite, eradicating the stink that 2013's Aliens: Colonial Marines left hanging over the franchise.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The raw sewage rises to the surface, adding to the unbearable stink, which spreads and worsens with every passing day.
    Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Buffalo probably will pull out of this funk, but what then?
    Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The longtime outfit from Omaha, Nebraska, that melds rock, reggae, rap and funk first declared March 11 (get it?
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Rancidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancidity. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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