offensive smell

Example Sentences

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“Along with an offensive smell, that laceration may be accompanied by bleeding from the mouth, signs of pain, excessive drooling or pawing at the side of the face,” Dr. de Jong says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2018

The sponge has a peculiarly strong and offensive smell.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

This is an excellent poultice to ease pain arising from a sore; it not only cleanses it, but takes off the offensive smell which generally attends such complaints.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

Foumart, fōō′m�rt, n. an old name for the polecat, from its offensive smell.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

"Yes," said Catharine de M�dicis, "I have been burning several old parchments which gave out such an offensive smell that I put some juniper into the brazier, hence this odor."

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre