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stinking

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stink·ing  (stngkng)
adj.
1. Having a foul smell; fetid.
2. Slang Drunk; intoxicated.
adv. Slang
Used as an intensive: stinking rich.

stinking·ly adv.
stinking·ness n.

stinking
Adjective
1. having a strong unpleasant smell
2. Informal unpleasant or disgusting
Adverb
stinking rich Informal very wealthy
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.stinking - very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
bad - having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
2.stinking - offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"

stinking
adjective 1. (Informal) rotten, disgusting, unpleasant, vile, contemptible, wretched
adjective 2. foul-smelling, smelly, reeking, fetid, malodorous, noisome, whiffy Brit. (slang) pongy Brit. (informal) mephitic, ill-smelling, niffy Brit. (slang) olid, festy Austral. (slang) yucko Austral. (slang)
Translations
stinking [ˈstɪŋkɪŋ] adjhediondo, fétido;
(fig) (col) → horrible
stinking [ˈstɪŋkɪŋ] adj (fig) (inf) → infect(e);
stinking rich → bourré(e) de pognon
stinking [ˈstɪŋkɪŋ] stink (inf) adj (fig) → beschissen (!);
a stinking cold stink → eine scheußliche Erkältung;
stinking rich stink → stinkreich
stinking [ˈstɪŋkɪŋ] adj (col): a stinking ... → uno schifo di ..., un/a maledetto/a ...;
stinking rich → ricco/a da far paura


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Beware my Laura (she would often say) Beware of the insipid Vanities and idle Dissipations of the Metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning Luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton.
The Kite, soaring aloft into the air, brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the length of time it had lain about the fields.
Apart from the one fundamental nastiness the luckless mouse succeeds in creating around it so many other nastinesses in the form of doubts and questions, adds to the one question so many unsettled questions that there inevitably works up around it a sort of fatal brew, a stinking mess, made up of its doubts, emotions, and of the contempt spat upon it by the direct men of action who stand solemnly about it as judges and arbitrators, laughing at it till their healthy sides ache.
 
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