putrescence

Example Sentences

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One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2024

The putrescence comes from the molecule indole, which is in certain flowers like orange blossom and magnolia, as well as in excrement.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

Many reviewers strive for a poetry of putrescence in how they excoriate their objects of dislike.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2021

Oscar Wilde, in a Bangkok cafe, Caught a whiff of a fruit in decay That gave rise to a dread Of putrescence and led To “The Picture of Durian Gray.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2019

With the fragrance of flowers is mingled something that betrays abomination and putrescence.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm