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
Wert thou a churchyard ornament, to braid The charnel of putridity, and part The spot where what was mortal had been laid, With all thy native coldness in his heart?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829 by Various
