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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stenchful
Adjective
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Two of the city’s most prominent sports decision-makers, trying to tug their Broncos to the same heights these Nuggets have reached in recent years, were treated to some of the most putrid basketball anyone inside Ball Arena could’ve possibly imagined.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
11 May 2025 -
The Wolves scored just 88 points to open the Western Conference semifinals, just 31 in a putrid first-half showing.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
7 May 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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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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Not so happy are people trying to swim around the stuff or breathing in the fetid aroma of drying mounds of sargassum.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2025
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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
Adjective
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Banned in Europe In addition to being a carcinogen, formaldehyde, a colorless and smelly gas, can cause rashes and can sicken those who breathe it in, according to the FDA.—
Ronnie Cohen,
NPR,
8 May 2025
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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
Adjective
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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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Performers like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who long ago bartered their integrity and believability for money and ratings, can peddle their noisome pro-Trump propaganda on Fox News.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2022
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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Forcing priests to divulge confessions, while exempting all manner of secular confessors, is rank religious discrimination.—
Dan McLaughlin,
National Review,
6 May 2025
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The purple efforts are beautiful and rank high among the best tube station decor.—
Caoimhe O'Neill,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Stenchful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stenchful. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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