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Recent Examples of skunky
Here’s a great piece from this week: Running along the trails that whipsaw through the oak forests of the Palo Alto hills, a reporter was hit with a musky, skunky smell that made the hair on her neck stand up.
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Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
Running along the trails that whipsaw through the oak forests of the Palo Alto hills, I was hit with a musky, skunky smell that made the hair on my neck stand up.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
English ales were — and are — less bitter and skunky than modern American porters and ales thanks to different hops, Clark said.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
Real weed emits a complex combination of earthy, skunky, and sometimes fruity aromas.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2023
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Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
Running along the trails that whipsaw through the oak forests of the Palo Alto hills, I was hit with a musky, skunky smell that made the hair on my neck stand up.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
English ales were — and are — less bitter and skunky than modern American porters and ales thanks to different hops, Clark said.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
Real weed emits a complex combination of earthy, skunky, and sometimes fruity aromas.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skunky
Adjective
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Meanwhile, the Grizzlies struggled with a team 34.4% shooting percentage, including a putrid 6-of-34 from 3-point territory.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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Even at the end of a putrid season last December, Soldier Field was still pretty packed for the post-Christmas snoozefest against the Seattle Seahawks.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Public stations were expensive to maintain and quickly became dirty and malodorous.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Jan. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Usually, a smelly refrigerator is caused by specific foods inside it and how they're stored.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Apr. 2025
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Before, the engine room was a noisy, smelly space below deck.—
Chun-Lien Su,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 July 2019
Adjective
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Davis was hardly the first to succumb to the lure of the corpse flower (not to be confused with Amorphophallus titanum, which has a giant phallic protrusion and also happens to smell like rancid meat and bear the nickname corpse flower).—
Hillary Rosner,
Discover Magazine,
10 Dec. 2013
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This research extends to the effects of pH and cooking temperature on meaty and species flavor, sweetness, barnyard, and rancid flavor in sheep-meat.—
ncbi rofl,
Discover Magazine,
3 Dec. 2010
Adjective
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Spring runoff goes under the building, creating a musty smell.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Apr. 2025
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Highly prized for their versatility, mushrooms’ flavor profiles range from woodsy to nutty, musty to mild.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Fresh beans are still and always best: A weird myth going around is that old or stale beans are good for cold brew—perhaps because cold brew might be a little more forgiving of stale beans than hot brew.—
Matthew Korfhage,
Wired News,
30 Apr. 2025
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During the pandemic, my firm discovered to our chagrin that some of the contractor bids our portfolio companies had been relying upon and communicating to us were quite stale — pre-shutdown.—
Rob Day,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This stone and glass shade is breathtakingly beautiful without being too loud or funky.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
24 Apr. 2025
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All 1500 editions will wear an appropriately funky shade of green, Olive Neo.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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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“Skunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skunky. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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