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Adjective
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Miami’s play was so decisively putrid that the 33-8 loss to the Colts seemed almost a blessing because the game felt so much more lopsided than that.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025 -
The offense has been explosive against the putrid White Sox and Washington Nationals, but starting pitcher Carlos Rodón has been a key to the success as well.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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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
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This $8 set comes with four zippered pouches that can separate dirty, wet, or stinky shoes from the rest of your belongings.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Sep. 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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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
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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
Adjective
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Avoid adding smelly meats, fruit rinds or other sweet-smelling food scraps to your compost.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Sep. 2025
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Once cool, pour it into a spray bottle and lightly mist the smelly surfaces.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 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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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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Nuts Nuts contain even more of those healthy fats than grains, and storing your pecans, almonds, cashews, or otherwise at room temperature can allow those fats to go rancid far faster than most of us can make it through the common 8- to 16-ounce bags.—
Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Stenchful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stenchful. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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