smelly
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“It’ll certainly be smelly and noxious, and bacteria and things are going to be growing in it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Trees have less dramatic ways to screw up your day: Their roots can infiltrate cracks in septic or sewage pipes, blocking the system and wreaking expensive, smelly havoc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Gas generators, the traditional option, are noisy, high maintenance and smelly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
They saw "smelly shoes as an opportunity for re-designing the traditional shoe rack for a better user experience".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
One gave off the stink of smelly toe shoes the minute it was put in the oven.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
“In certain directions, I definitely picked up on the sweaty socks, sweaty gym clothes, but probably luckily not full-on rotting meat, but definitely a smellier plant than average,” Lister said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
"Thankfully he didn't seem to find his capture too alarming and hadn't released his spray in defence - otherwise it would have been a much smellier rescue mission."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2021
It’s just a bad setup and the more people look into it, the smellier it looks.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2019
This time around, the season was like many before it — just hotter, wetter, smellier, more crowded and louder.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2019
Within fifteen minutes, so many people had shown up that the room got hotter and more humid and even smellier.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
It’s like saying that the smelliest dog in town got four baths this week.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Experts blame a mix of troubled crops, market forces, depleted stockpiles - and the world’s smelliest fruit.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
Or is it because chopping garlic is one of the most menial, least pleasurable, smelliest of tasks, and a refusal to do so indicates a resistance to work for our food?
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2022
The ones I’m fondest of growing recently are Amorphophallus, which is known as being among the smelliest plants.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
And then all of a sudden she let out the biggest, loudest, smelliest fart in the history of farts.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
