stenchful

adjective

Definition of stenchfulnext
as in putrid

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stenchful
  1. putrid
  2. malodorous
  3. stinking
  4. fetid
  5. smelly
  6. noisome
  7. rancid
  8. rank
Adjective
  • Amid yet another putrid season, the Carolina Panthers have reportedly traded Pro Bowl wide receiver Diontae Johnson to the AFC North squad.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Heading into next week, the McDaniel Dolphins have 46 in 41 games for a putrid 1.12 per game.
    Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of putrid
Adjective
  • Gary Oldman remains as delightful as ever as the malodorous but brilliant Jackson Lamb.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Its leaves release a malodorous smell when trod upon and so served as a strewing herb.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 20 Apr. 2024
Definition of malodorous
Adjective
  • This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Muttaiah said the man inside the stinking manhole was working without any safety equipment — no gloves, no shoes, no supplemental oxygen.
    Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
Definition of stinking
Adjective
  • Similarly, Musk has transformed Twitter into a dull, fetid cesspool of White nationalism and paranoid lies.
    Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The city’s shimmering wealth and fetid corruption leap from the page; so, too, does music’s transcendent, radiant power.
    Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
Definition of fetid
Adjective
  • Many of the seeds were black, mushy and smelly, but some appeared to be healthy.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Having Poor Hygiene No one wants to sit next to a smelly, dirty passenger.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of smelly
Adjective
  • To question the sincerity of the president’s rhetoric—and that of his party—is not to dismiss the challenge posed by the various noisome currents of antidemocratic sentiment and behavior running through our politics like the effluence of overflowing sewers.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Performers like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who long ago bartered their integrity and believability for money and ratings, can peddle their noisome pro-Trump propaganda on Fox News.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
Definition of noisome
Adjective
  • Davis was hardly the first to succumb to the lure of the corpse flower (not to be confused with Amorphophallus titanum, which has a giant phallic protrusion and also happens to smell like rancid meat and bear the nickname corpse flower).
    Hillary Rosner, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
  • This research extends to the effects of pH and cooking temperature on meaty and species flavor, sweetness, barnyard, and rancid flavor in sheep-meat.
    ncbi rofl, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2010
Definition of rancid
Adjective
  • The Cardinals fired their coach this week, are 3-7 overall and rank 132nd in passing yards allowed per game.
    Manny Navarro, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • But nobody has ever managed to do what BMW has: Its new TwinPower engine, also known as the N20, is so powerful and responsive that only a rank sentimentalist would miss the six-cylinder.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
Definition of rank
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