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He offered dignity and commitment over putrid cynicism, courage in the face of hatred.
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Those extra pathways can pigment terms, weaponize musical notes, or even ruin a first date with a rather putrid-tasting name.
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This water, although of a dirty and thick appearance, is said to possess the valuable quality of resisting putridity for years.
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A remarkable effect of the Puna wind is its power of speedily drying animal bodies, and thereby preventing putridity.
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Politicians as corrupt as putridity itself, trembled and cried aloud for help.
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But the dirt of a prison speaks sadness to the heart, and appears to be already in a state of putridity and infection.
CALEB WILLIAMSWILLIAM GODWIN
Sepsis, sep′sis, n. putridity, rot: a genus of dipterous insects.
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There was a general odor of decaying fruit and fish, a smell of staleness and putridity.
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Out of that mass of moral putridity these Ephesian Christians had been dragged.
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In the latter he found the remarkable evidences of putridity already cited in connexion with putrid fevers.
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