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/faʊl-smˈɛlɪŋ/ Listen

Foul-smelling

adjective

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

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"Foul-smelling" Quotes from Famous Books

... for a moment to realize, as far as we can, the nature of that abode of the damned which the justice of an offended God has called into existence for the eternal punishment of sinners. Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke. The straitness of this prison house is expressly designed by God to punish those who refused to be bound by His laws. In earthly prisons the poor captive has at least some liberty of movement, were it only within the four ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

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... we reached Giessen, and were unloaded and marched through dark streets to the prison-camp, which is on the outskirts of the city. We were put into a dimly lighted hut, stale and foul-smelling, too, and when we put up the windows, some of our own Sergeants objected on account of the cold, and shut them down. Well, at least we had room if we hadn't air, and we huddled together and slept, trying to forget what we used to believe about the ...

— Three Times and Out • Nellie L. McClung

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Words linked to "Foul-smelling" : malodourous, malodorous, ill-smelling, unpleasant-smelling, stinky, funky