Word Finder - stinking

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To have a strong bad smell.

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To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

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That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.

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To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.

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Something stinks about the politician's excuses.

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To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

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Having a pungent smell.

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Very bad and undesirable.

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Despite leading the way for years, the new model is really stinking.

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An intensifier, a minced oath.

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We don’t need your stinking sympathy.

Finally the larva of one of the Bornean Mantidae, which is a floral simulator in its pupal and adult stages, closely resembles in its black and red coloration the larva of the stinking and warningly coloured bug Eulyes amoena.

The "stinking fermentations" occasionally experienced in breweries probably arise from this, the free sulphur being derived from the hops.

He left a note—a damn note after 12 stinking years!

Tilletia Tritici, bunt or stinking smut of wheat, is so-called because the bunted grain has a disagreeable odour of stale herrings.

The Jamaica or calabash nutmeg is derived from Monodora Myristica, the Brazilian from Cryptocarya moschata, the Peruvian from Laurelia sempervirens, the Madagascar or clove nutmeg from Agathophyllum aromaticum, and the Californian or stinking nutmeg from Torreya Myristica.

He all but dragged her through the quiet, stinking roads of Corcoran, seething, oblivious to the wooden huts lining the muddied street on each side of them.

Around his head hung a wreath of stinking weeds.

Introduce populations of stinking hawk's-beard at four additional sites in accordance with the proposals under English Nature's Species Recovery Program.

The " stinking iris ", a rare plant, is also to be found in this area.

Previously UK awash with unwashed dishwashers European washout fuels immigration fears Take that, you stinking leech!

A toad, a stinking carcass, cannot be so loathsome to us as a sinner is to God.

No more the wounded dragged from stinking mud, Or the constant rain that starts the flood.

There was me standing on a rotten wooden platform 20 ft above a concrete floor sweeping up bird crap and really stinking wet grain.

Ca n't have you stinking the place out, can we?

These aspirations will include things like having a family, becoming stinking rich, or reaching the top with a particular type of career.

I ca n't express how much I hate coming in from a night on the tiles, stinking of smoke.

I have been avoiding Diet thread due to inability to do it, blaming a stinking cold at the moment !

A distinct smell of stinking fish began to permeate the EU institutions !

Sometimes, a player may fall behind, or be off, or just plain stinking.

Stephen Bathory, voivode of Transylvania and count of the Szeklers, for instance, ruled Transylvania like a Turkish pasha, and threatened to behead all who dared to complain of his exactions; " Stinking carrion," he said, was better than living Szeklers.

He left a note—a damn note after 12 stinking years!

I have a stinking cold - on week 3 now - but everyone else ahs it too so that makes me feel better!

Four-hour walk in from Coire Cas car park to find the doss decrepit, stinking and full of snow.

Out with him on a tour of some of the branch monasteries I was nearly frantic to get my stinking robes washed.

The full fry There are many theories as to why nothing beats a full English breakfast in the event of a stinking hangover.

The rider stood there, completely sodden; stinking black mud covering him from head to toe.

After all, no one likes to go out to a pub for a drink and come back stinking of cigarette smoke.

The mists, due to the great heat and excessive evaporation, and the noxious miasmata, especially of the southern region, were exaggerated into the noisome vapours that the "black and stinking" waters ever exhaled.