putrescent
Example Sentences
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The pinkish, putrescent, rurally located lagoons have been a source of concern for decades.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2018
Emily Browning, who embodies Dead Wife Laura Moon as both ferociously loyal and frustratingly troubled, didn’t either – but we'd like to give her the most fly-attracting, putrescent prize we can imagine this year.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2017
He will expound on the archaic waste-disposal operations that once flourished on the creek, conjuring scenes of putrescent horse carcasses floating in on barges from Manhattan and docks piled with manure three stories high.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2012
Albright, who was tapped by Hollywood to portray Dorian Gray in his penultimate desuetude, collects adjectives like "loathsome," "gruesome," "morbid," "putrescent" and "repulsive" the way other painters collect gold medals.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the gallinazos, as these black-headed birds are called by the natives, although lazy and unwieldy, nevertheless are in such immense numbers here, that they suffice to keep the streets comparatively free from putrescent odours.
