stinking
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2.0
- adjective
- /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/
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apestoso
- So between the coal and the bugs, which one smells just completely stinking awful, like a Subway sandwich shop?
- stinking water
- stinking place
- stinking cell
And Tagomi says take foul stinking cigarette along.
- And Tagomi says take foul stinking cigarette along.
- She pierces the throat of the whore, and stinking fumes with clots of blood, or spat forth the foul breath poisons the nearby air.
- Just give me an old stinking mud hole and hippo will go in that mud hole and stand for hours just in a mud hole.
Examples
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The air in the apartment was stuffy, warm and stinking of cats.
Fiction book (1995) -
If the market was formerly described in terms of organic metaphors of fluorescence and growth, now it was considered a stinking, filthy place, rotten with both rats and prostitution.
Academic text (1998) -
It's a hot, stinking pile.
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First, it was the closet, the dark, stinking closet.
Fiction book (1993) -
As we passed through the nearest dark, stinking alleyway, I heard a shout: a woman's voice.
Blog text (19) -
It's a big worker, all right: shiny, slick, and stinking of lubricants and newness.
Fiction book (2000) -
When Sara looked up at him, her features taut with worry in the jaundiced corona of the porch light, he had just for a moment glimpsed a vision of himself as she must have seen him: bearish, slovenly, stinking of drink.
Fiction book (1998) -
The kitchen was filled with a stinking odor from the spoiled food.
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He wrinkled his nose at the stinking trash bag left in the corner.
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The stinking fumes from the factory made it hard to breathe outside.
Synonyms
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1.0
Giving off a strong, unpleasant stink
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1.0
Having a very bad smell
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3.9
A stale, slightly damp smell like old things kept without fresh air
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3.0
Having a very bad smell or taste
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6.9
Has a bad smell
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7.9
A very strong, bad smell like rotten food or trash
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4.1
A very strong stink that makes you want to move away
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8.2
Having a very bad smell that people dislike
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9.9
A very strong, unpleasant smell that can make you ill
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8.5
Having a strong smell that is often unpleasant
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3.8
Having a bad smell that people do not like
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4.4
That has a strong, unpleasant odor
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9.9
Full of a strong bad smell that makes the air feel unhealthy
Giving off a very bad smell
Having a very strong bad smell like smoke or rot
Having a very strong unpleasant smell or taste
Having a very strong, unpleasant smell like rotten food
Having a strong, unpleasant smell
Smelling strongly of something unpleasant
Having a stale, stuffy smell as if it has not been aired
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A small plant with strong-smelling leaves that grows in disturbed places
- Specialized
A plant that has green flowers, smells bad, and is poisonous if eaten
A small bush with three leaves and yellow flowers that smells bad when crushed
- Specialized
A common weed with white flowers, yellow centers and a strong bad smell
A plant with leaves in groups of three and small white or pink flowers that smells unpleasant
A poisonous plant with a strong bad smell, sticky hairy leaves, and yellow-brown flowers
- Specialized
A disease that affects wheat and similar grains, turning grains into dark, smelly masses
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stinking comes from the old English verb stincan, which meant 'to give off a strong smell' and is the same root as the common word stink. So a stinking thing is one that smells very bad.