fetid
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Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
But the plants that seem the most out of place — as if they belonged in some distant jungle, not the rural Midwest — are the more fetid flowers.
From Salon • May 27, 2025
It is all too easy to find yourself submerged in fetid water, or sucked into a slurry of thick, black mud.
From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024
In the Ukrainian-held city of Kherson on the west bank, rescuers completely evacuated a neighborhood submerged in fetid floodwaters, venturing out in boats to pull people from roofs and the upper floors of homes.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023
It was a nauseating smell, both fetid and sickly sweet, thick in the dusk as it filled Koffi's lungs.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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