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This week, Chicago visits the Baltimore Ravens, who entered the season with Super Bowl aspirations but instead are 1-5 because of injuries and a putrid defense.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025 -
Former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito tore into head coach Mike McDaniel and quarterback Tua Tagovialoa amid a putrid start to the 2025 season.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Midsummer is usually when sargassum, the floating seaweed that often washes up in malodorous piles on Florida beaches, starts to wane.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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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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From cleaning your bathroom to combating stinky feet, keep reading for 10 genius ways to use dryer sheets in your home.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
30 Oct. 2025
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Over time, leftover detergent, dirt, and lint can stick to the drum, gasket, and hoses, which creates a slimy film that stinky bacteria love.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Oct. 2025
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Four plays, 76 yards, in 25 stinking seconds.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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All spoke about the inhumane conditions, from the fetid human waste to having to stand during the rain because there is nowhere to lie down.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
15 Sep. 2025
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This fetid flow — filled with both pathogens and toxic chemicals — stems from inadequate treatment near Tijuana, shuttering beaches and sickening Navy SEALs for years.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Once these target areas are addressed, don’t forget to give the rest of the machine some love by running it on a wash cycle with your favorite dishwasher cleaning solution to eliminate any remaining buildup that could lead to a messy, smelly machine.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
2 Nov. 2025
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Walking deeper into a smelly cave along the Albania-Greece border, cavers shined their flashlights along the rock walls and illuminated a massive spider colony.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 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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Charles has visited every continent on Earth, drinking rancid yak butter tea in Lhasa, snorkeling with sea lions in the Galapagos and even climbing an iceberg in Antarctica.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Beans sometimes smelled rancid.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Stenchful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stenchful. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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