fetid

Example Sentences

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The optimist notes that Baltimore’s division, the AFC North, is in a fetid state at the moment, with Aaron Rodgers and the strangely 3-1 Steelers coasting over the moribund Ravens, Cleveland and Cincinnati.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 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

People buy dwindling jugs from municipal sanitation stations, scour for bottles in supermarkets or drink whatever fetid liquid may dribble out of their pipes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

The tents we'd seen previously had been torn apart, and their ragged canvas flapped limply in the fetid breeze.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda