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Adjective
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And the Knicks, on the way to an admittedly impressive fifty-one wins, amassed a putrid 0–10 record against the élite teams who were supposed to be their peers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025 -
That led to a first-place finish in the NFC North even though the Minnesota defense was putrid.—
Steve Silverman,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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Callery pear and Bradford pear trees are considered malodorous, according to the Spruce, a home and garden site.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Rue was considered the most malodorous of all herbs, was even thought to keep away evil spirits, and was spread on church floors for this purpose.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
12 June 2025
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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Harold had exclaimed when the fetid, turquoise sea had at last come into view.—
Nicole Krauss,
The Atlantic,
6 July 2025
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Decades of despoiling water bodies have taken a terrible toll, filling water bodies with fetid algae that blocks sunlight and smothers the native seagrass beds that are a main food source for manatees.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 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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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
Adjective
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Fish supplements that contain omega-3s are prone to going rancid.—
Amber Smith,
Discover Magazine,
4 Apr. 2022
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Much of the damage was from flooding, which left a thick layer of rancid muck on her floors.—
Stephen Smith and Bobby Caina Calvan,
Anchorage Daily News,
7 Oct. 2022
Adjective
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Cosby’s good guys do things that outpace the rankest villainy in the work of other crime writers.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
8 July 2025
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Just last week, as millions of Americans took to the skies, June 27 and June 29 now rank as the seventh and eighth busiest days respectively in TSA history, pushing 2025 to claim six of the agency's top 10 busiest days on record.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
30 June 2025
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“Stenchful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stenchful. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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