stenchful

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stenchful
Adjective
  • Most concerning, Texas ran for a putrid 52 yards on 26 attempts, all but hand-delivering Oklahoma coach and defensive guru Brent Venables the blueprint for how to shut the Longhorns down next week in the Red River Showdown.
    Grace Raynor, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Cheryl Reeve is right about this — the quality of officiating in the WNBA is putrid.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • The fabric also features Lululemon’s signature Silverescent technology, which prevents the growth of stinky bacteria.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
  • An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their stories include the reasons that kept them from evacuating and then the harrowing odysseys that took some of them through fetid streets of flood waters, others to the nightmare that was the Superdome or the Convention Center, and still others across impassable bridges and freeways.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Rainleaf Microfiber Towel A microfiber towel is another takeaway from my camping adventures, where a damp towel can become heavy and smelly.
    Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
  • More than half reported feeling uncomfortable about their own or someone else's smelly shoes, and 90 percent kept their shoes in a shoe rack.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • At least one study has found, for example, that younger children will not recoil from rancid odors that provoke disgust in older children and adults, which suggests that these responses might be learned.
    Franklin Schneider, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • His unwillingness to shift and Florida’s subsequently rancid offense came to a predictable inflection point last week.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Stenchful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stenchful. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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