putridity
Example Sentences
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Without them, we’d live in a world of putridity and pestilence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
But an equally alarming problem surfaced as offenses reached new levels of putridity.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2017
They found meat at Navy depots to be "garbage and putridity in a horrible state".
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2013
I love the crazy steeplechase of the NFL season, but there's some justice to Bill Simmons' complaints about the era of "perpetual putridity."
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2011
I found him exceedingly weak and sick, with strong tendencies to putridity.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)