stinky
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Desmodesmus is “not a dangerous thing,” he says, although in such large amounts, “it can be unsightly for sure,” as well as stinky.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
Alice spends her days cleaning Lady Jemima’s stinky shoes, sponging her underwear and greasing her long blonde hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
"I know how much he loves me, that he's willing to go through a rotten, stinky compost pile," she told CTV with a laugh.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
I’ve eaten stinky socks, rotten eggs and old bandages — thanks to a cruel Jelly Belly Bean Boozled challenge in junior high.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
Ray’s up on his hind legs, one brown paw on each of George’s shoulders, placing stinky dog-breath licks onto George’s white beard.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
Don't be scared of the stinky cheese; in fact, the stinkier, the better, I say!
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2023
“But with so much more food waste, our trash tends to be stinkier, smellier wet trash.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021
Most of the time, the stinkier the cheese, the stronger its flavor.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021
On the contrary, it just makes it even stinkier, because it has aspirations to be something bigger and better than it truly is and fails miserably to reach those heights.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2014
“I’ll tell you because you’re my best friend: It’s mostly blended hot dog wiener and some really stinky cheese. The stinkier, the better.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Little is known about how the parasitic Rafflesia—a genus that produces the world’s largest and stinkiest flower—infects its host plants.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2022
Yet for a half-century, Mr. McGinley, 76, has returned again and again to society’s stinkiest sites, places very much like this one, in order to measure, describe and demystify smell.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
She’s started to get teased in kindergarten for “having the stinkiest farts.”
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2020
It’s a joke, but not really: Somewhere between the exhibit on the world’s stinkiest cheese and the free samples of fermented shark meat, someone’s stomach may turn.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2018
Dad also has the loudest, stinkiest farts in creation.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
