stinks 1 of 2

plural of stink

stinks

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of stink
1
as in reeks
to give off an extremely unpleasant smell the dog stinks because she tangled with a skunk again

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2
as in sucks
to be objectionable or unsatisfactory their team really stinks this year

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Recent Examples of stinks
Verb
The free speech argument stinks. Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025 No one says anyone has to accept that the team stinks. Nick Suss, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2025 Of all the questionable advice pinging around social media platforms, this one really stinks—literally. Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025 So, if the economy stinks, why is the stock market so delighted? David Goldman, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025 Also, the palace stinks of humans. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stinks
Noun
  • Rull and other senior MIA administrators were raising objections at a time when there was a high-level push in county government to send money to the annual rodeo festival that County Commission Chair Anthony Rodriguez hosts each year in his district at Tropical Park.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • A number of reasons, including the high cost of the RSDSC and objections from environmentalists.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Getting left out of things sucks.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • If the prompt sucks, the output sucks.
    Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Tension between Lorincz and the rest of the neighborhood began with her frequent complaints to the police about local children playing near her home.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The incidents began in early 2021, when Lorincz called the police half a dozen times with complaints about Owens' children.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The air smells of rust and salt.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That’s not to say that every political event that smells like a coup is, in fact, a coup.
    John Joseph Chin, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The odds of a hurricane landfall in the US really dwindle at the end of October and into November, but there have been notable late-season exceptions.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Walmart is one of the exceptions that proves the rule.
    Mark Simon, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Stinks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stinks. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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