Thesaurus / stinking
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.
Again, we will pass through stinking sewers, up to our elbows in putrid filth.
BLACK DIAMONDSMR JKAI
It makes me smile, Why, what a stinking smother will they utter!
THE LITTLE FRENCH LAWYERFRANCIS BEAUMONT
Extract of stinking goose-foot; Extractum chenopodii, L. Prep.
It was no plan of mine to cry stinking fish to a Prince who had engentried me in such distinguished company.
THE YEOMAN ADVENTURERGEORGE W. GOUGH
Can't cry creaky waxworks any more than you can stinking fish.
The fire crept slowly around, and gave a thick, grey, stinking smoke.
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTS
"Nothing to complain about," said Slotman, who did not believe in crying stinking fish.
THE IMAGINARY MARRIAGEHENRY ST. JOHN COOPER
Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix in the corn and mingle Or thrid the stinking hemp till the stalks of it seem a-tingle.
BROWNING AND THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES. S. CURRY
WORDS RELATED TO STINKING
- abominable
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- deplorable
- depressing
- dire
- disgusting
- distressing
- dreadful
- fearful
- frightful
- ghastly
- grody
- gross
- gruesome
- grungy
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- horrifying
- nasty
- offensive
- raunchy
- repulsive
- shocking
- stinking
- synthetic
- tough
- ugly
- unpleasant
- unsightly
- angry
- atrocious
- bad
- baneful
- base
- beastly
- calamitous
- corrupt
- damnable
- depraved
- destructive
- disastrous
- execrable
- flagitious
- foul
- harmful
- hateful
- heinous
- hideous
- iniquitous
- injurious
- loathsome
- low
- maleficent
- malevolent
- malicious
- malignant
- nefarious
- no good
- obscene
- offensive
- pernicious
- poison
- rancorous
- reprobate
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- spiteful
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- ugly
- unpleasant
- unpropitious
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
- wrathful
- wrong
- awful
- beastly
- bum
- dirty
- disagreeable
- fierce
- filthy
- foul
- gross
- grubby
- hellish
- horrible
- horrid
- icky
- impure
- loathsome
- lousy
- malodorous
- mephitic
- murderous
- nauseating
- noisome
- noxious
- objectionable
- obnoxious
- obscene
- odious
- ornery
- outrageous
- poison
- polluted
- raunchy
- repellent
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- rough
- sickening
- soiled
- squalid
- stinking
- tough
- unappetizing
- unclean
- uncleanly
- ungodly
- unholy
- unpleasant
- vile
- vulgar
- yucky
- baneful
- dangerous
- deadly
- deleterious
- disgusting
- fetid
- foul
- harmful
- horrid
- hurtful
- injurious
- insalubrious
- insalutary
- loathsome
- malodorous
- mephitic
- mischievous
- nauseating
- noxious
- pernicious
- pestiferous
- pestilential
- poisonous
- putrid
- rank
- reeking
- repulsive
- sickening
- sickly
- smelly
- stinking
- unhealthful
- unhealthy
- unwholesome
- vile
- yucky
- abhorrent
- abominable
- annoying
- awful
- beastly
- big mouth
- detestable
- disagreeable
- disgusting
- dislikable
- displeasing
- foul
- gross
- hateable
- hateful
- heel
- horrid
- insufferable
- invidious
- loathsome
- mean
- nasty
- nauseating
- objectionable
- odious
- off-color
- ornery
- pain in the neck
- pesky
- pestiferous
- pill
- repellent
- reprehensible
- repugnant
- revolting
- rotten
- sickening
- stinking
- unpleasant
- aromatic
- balmy
- dank
- effluvious
- fetid
- flavorsome
- flowery
- foul
- fragrant
- heady
- honeyed
- loud
- malodorous
- mephitic
- miasmic
- moldy
- musty
- nauseous
- odoriferant
- odoriferous
- offensive
- olfactive
- olfactory
- perfumatory
- perfumed
- perfumy
- pungent
- putrid
- redolent
- reeking
- rotten
- savorous
- savory
- scent-laden
- scented
- scentful
- skunky
- smelly
- spicy
- stagnant
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- sweet
- sweet-scented
- sweet-smelling
- tumaceous
- unsavory
- whiffy
- abhorrent
- abusive
- annoying
- biting
- cutting
- detestable
- disagreeable
- discourteous
- distasteful
- dreadful
- embarrassing
- evil
- foul
- ghastly
- grisly
- gross
- hideous
- horrible
- horrid
- impertinent
- insolent
- invidious
- irritating
- nauseating
- objectionable
- obnoxious
- odious
- off-color
- offending
- opprobrious
- outrageous
- repellent
- reprehensible
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- rude
- shocking
- stinking
- terrible
- uncivil
- unmannerly
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