Thesaurus / fetid

fetid

How to use fetid in a sentence

Inside the cafs men and women, old and young, are dancing in the fetid atmosphere to jingling pianos or accordions.

BELGIUMGEORGE W. T. (GEORGE WILLIAM THOMSON) OMOND

The passageway was growing damper; water trickled down the walls and gathered in fetid pools on the floor.

STAR BORNANDRE NORTON

Worse than this, though—I fancied I noticed about the room in the morning that strange, fetid odour.

The fetid odor exhaled from the corpse caused a pestilence involving thousands of deaths.

The residue was oily and fetid ashes, with a greasy soot, of a very penetrating and disagreeable smell.

A small quantity of the creosote passed over the surface of these with a feather, immediately removes the fetid odours.

On we went—up hill and down, in the depths of the valley and over the soft fetid swamp.

His defensive armour is found in the fetid effluvium which, by a muscular exertion, he is capable of ejecting upon his pursuer.

The countryside experienced a phenomenal period of drought, and for weeks the river seemed impure and almost fetid.

The whole air was fetid with the sickly stench of high explosive.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985