stink

Innuendo leaves a lingering stink that’s harder to dispel.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

Get ready to catch a whiff of stink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

So does it stink that the semiquincentennial has been such a flop?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

I asked them if there’s a ratio of assets to spending that maximizes the odds of a secure retirement—even if stock returns stink or you turn out to be Methuselah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The air in the cabin was thick with the stink of disease, but the hearth was warm.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Here in La Guaira, which in happier times is a beach resort for people making a day trip from Caracas, the air now stinks of death.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Her stats are decent, but her attitude stinks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Scratchy and stiff, it stinks of the stale urine used to set the dye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The answer was a very direct "no", but Ross took the chance to opine that "this stinks".

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

“Because it stinks a big one that they don’t. What about you? What did you wish for?”

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

He found a place in Astana in an apartment that stank of cat.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Black singers get it: You’re practicing the art of stank.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

Also Mencken: “The whole place stank of orange blossoms.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

Even if it was a dozen stories up, the air stank.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

We didn’t have whales, just freshwater fish like alewifes, which stunk up the beaches with annual die-offs that occurred in huge numbers.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

For the past five years, returns have stunk, especially following a 28% tumble for the ETF since the end of October.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

“It kind of stunk that we lost. But I knew it was the last time I was going to put on a uniform. I was privileged to wear it for as long as I did.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

“It was disgusting,” she said, explaining that the walls were damp and mouldy, while the flat was dirty and stunk of cigarette smoke.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024

And when they shut off the water first and then the power next, it stunk and the rats came, braver than the bugs, more invasive than the men.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

“These are all the struggles I think about every stinking day,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Miles and miles of refineries and their stinking tailings ponds, adjacent to beach resorts that run on desalination plants.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026

Just last month a massive stinking lump of wet wipes, fat and oil was removed from a west London sewer.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

A poisonous river of a stinking yellow liquid rushed downhill, inundating homes and fields, including the one where she grew corn to feed her eight children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

"Well," she said, sucking away at her stinking cigar, "their favourite ruse is to mix up a powder that will turn a child into some creature or other that all grown-ups hate."

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl