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
This is the typhus mitior, or nervous fever of some writers; it is attended with weak pulse without inflammation, or symptoms of putridity, as they have been called.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus