smelly
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“It’ll certainly be smelly and noxious, and bacteria and things are going to be growing in it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Never having to huff your own engine exhaust is even better—you just don’t notice how smelly gas cars can be until you’ve been out of one for a while.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Gas generators, the traditional option, are noisy, high maintenance and smelly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
The ones I could actually get were dark, smelly or unsafe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
Anyway, he was glad to have new threads, since his old ones were pretty smelly and burned up.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
“In certain directions, I definitely picked up on the sweaty socks, sweaty gym clothes, but probably luckily not full-on rotting meat, but definitely a smellier plant than average,” Lister said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
The magnet fishing waters she explores in Northern California are murkier, and often smellier, than the clear waters she once dived in, but she said her new hobby has strengthened her relationship with the water.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
"Thankfully he didn't seem to find his capture too alarming and hadn't released his spray in defence - otherwise it would have been a much smellier rescue mission."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2021
It’s just a bad setup and the more people look into it, the smellier it looks.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2019
The scarier, the smellier, the uglier, the better.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
It’s like saying that the smelliest dog in town got four baths this week.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
“Odorless” on the label means it has been refined even more to strip it of some of the smelliest — and most toxic — ingredients.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
Or is it because chopping garlic is one of the most menial, least pleasurable, smelliest of tasks, and a refusal to do so indicates a resistance to work for our food?
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2022
The ones I’m fondest of growing recently are Amorphophallus, which is known as being among the smelliest plants.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
“I can smell you from here. You’re the smelliest creature in the place.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
