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odorous

[oh-der-uhs] / ˈoʊ dər əs /


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One of his recurring subjects was meat, from flayed rabbits to rayfish, with odorous side effects.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

These hazardous spills have formed bubbling ponds and “ultimately rivers of odorous waste,” according to officials with the SCAQMD.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2024

The incandescent bulb’s bright light replaced the dim and often odorous illumination of oil and gas lamps that brought the risk of fire and, in the case of gas, of suffocation and explosions.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

There, a chance encounter with an older member of the community, who remembered the researchers who first described the species decades prior, led them to a particularly odorous subterranean cave.

From Scientific American Sep. 22, 2021

He stood aside and she peered down into the obscurity odorous of dank earth and mold and rubber.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner




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