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Stinking

adjective

Very bad. Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky. "It's a stinking world"

Offensively malodorous. Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly. "The kitchen smelled really funky"

Stink

verb

(past stank; past part. stunk; pres. part. stinking)

Be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance.

Smell badly and offensively. Synonym: reek.

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"Stinking" Quotes from Famous Books

... and squeak! Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week. Rumble and tumble, sleek and rough, Stinking and savory, smug and gruff, Take the church-road, for the bell's due chime ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... good night here, Hartley,"—the Banker's voice was unnatural and wavering. "I can't discuss it with you. It's got to be proved," he spoke more heatedly. "What have you got? Only the word of a stinking native. I tell you it's monstrous." He stopped and clutched Hartley's arm, and seemed as though he ...

— The Pointing Man - A Burmese Mystery • Marjorie Douie

... his fist on the table: "I don't care if he's Gauss and Riemann and Lorenz and Poincare and Minkowski and Whitehead and Einstein, all collapsed into one! The man is a stinking traitor, not only to us, but to all scientists and all sciences! If he doesn't shoot himself, hand him over to the United States, and let them shoot him! Why do ...

— The Mercenaries • Henry Beam Piper

... about seeking drink for him; for the place had no water in it, and he was at a good distance from his camp. After a long search he at last luckily met with one of those poor Caunian camp-followers, who had in a wretched skin about four pints of foul and stinking water, which he took and gave to the king; and when he had drunk all off, he asked him if he did not dislike the water; but he declared by all the gods, that he never so much relished either wine, or water out of the lightest or purest stream. "And therefore," ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... war—those dozens upon dozens of curious soldier faces framed in slouch hats only half understanding; the imploring eunuch on the ground, the huddled mass of slaughtered men swimming in their blood in the shadow behind; that thick smell of murder and sudden death rising and stinking in the hot air; and the last cruel note of that Chinese figure, with a shriek of agony and fear petrified on the features, swinging in long, loose clothes from the rafter above. In the bright sunlight and the sudden silence which had come over everything, there was a peculiar menace in all ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

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