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malodorous

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mal·o·dor·ous  (ml-dr-s)
adj.
Having a bad odor; foul.
mal·odor·ous·ly adv.
mal·odor·ous·ness n.
malodorous [mal-lode-or-uss]
Adjective
having an unpleasant smell: the malodorous sludge of Boston harbour
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Adj.1.malodorous - having an unpleasant smell
ill-smelling, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling
fragrant - pleasant-smelling


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She took the gourd in one hand, and rather than cause the giver pain raised it to her lips, though for the life of her she could scarce restrain the qualm of nausea that surged through her as the malodorous thing approached her nostrils.
The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
These queer cosmopolitan women, deep in complicated love-affairs which they appeared to feel the need of retailing to every one they met, and the magnificent young officers and elderly dyed wits who were the subjects or the recipients of their confidences, were too different from the people Archer had grown up among, too much like expensive and rather malodorous hot-house exotics, to detain his imagination long.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
The little flat was hot and stuffy under the August sun, and from the road beat up a malodorous sultriness.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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