offensive smell

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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 cabbage decays with a strong, offensive smell when its tissues finally break down after repeated changes of temperature and moisture.

From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous

Crude bone oil has a most offensive smell.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

It is a poisonous colourless gas, with a characteristic offensive smell.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

Any pronounced taste in the water renders it suspicious; an offensive smell points to organic contamination; turbidity indicates presence of suspended impurities, which may be either mineral or organic.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm