as in stink
a strong unpleasant smell
we finally discovered the dead rat that was causing the stench in the basement
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Recent Examples of stench
Seen through the lens of our volatile political climate these days, this all hits a little too close to home, and the guys’ blasé attitude to seeing widespread death and suffering from their ivory tower just gives off a foul stench.
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2 June 2025
Vape clouds are more readily concealed than the stench of cigarette smoke.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
Adding to the stench was an apparently plentiful amount of manure, which was regularly left there by pigs digging through the soil of the execution site in search of edible scraps.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2025
Greater Boston communities at the center of the ongoing sanitation worker strike are taking Republic Services to court, seeking immediate relief as trash piles mount, attracting rats and giving off a sickening stench.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 17 July 2025
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2 June 2025
Vape clouds are more readily concealed than the stench of cigarette smoke.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
Adding to the stench was an apparently plentiful amount of manure, which was regularly left there by pigs digging through the soil of the execution site in search of edible scraps.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2025
Greater Boston communities at the center of the ongoing sanitation worker strike are taking Republic Services to court, seeking immediate relief as trash piles mount, attracting rats and giving off a sickening stench.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 17 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stench
Noun
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My participation in this harmful farce left a stink on me that won’t soon wash off.—
Vincent Schiraldi,
Baltimore Sun,
26 June 2025
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King’s Chapel was established in 1683 as the first Anglican church in New England, which was settled starting in 1620 by dissenters who wanted a theocracy and religion shorn of folderol, cant, and the stink of popes and kings.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
19 July 2025
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His actions reek of political theater, his fear and disdain of home rule and his desperate need to be relevant.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Aug. 2025
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The absence of these performances among the nominations reeks of a snobbishness that the Academy should have long outgrown.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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