stinking
IPA: stˈɪŋkɪŋ
noun
- The emission of a foul smell.
adjective
- Having a pungent smell.
- Very bad and undesirable.
- (slang) Very drunk.
- (euphemistic) An intensifier, a hypallage.
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Examples of "stinking" in Sentences
- They are better off dead than alive in stinking “Gitmo.”
- We do the dirty jobs: the ohs the press call stinking and underhanded.
- Crist, Greer, Thrasher, the state GOP … … This fish is stinking from the head down.
- In the end, Collins's Wednesday night rant to the media—has any public speaker used the word "stinking" to more memorable effect?
- There’s a big difference between a homeless guy sitting on a sidewalk or a park bench and a homeless guy on a bus or train stinking up half of a car.
- You had indicated before that -- and you used the term stinking drunk when she was initially arrested -- but when she was arrested, she had .08 alcohol.
- Be prepared to drag it through about 100 yards of lirio in stinking water and, whatever you do, don't tip over or you will emerge resembling something from Motel Hell.
- On Thursday, Becca and Josie came up from St. Catharines and Burlington, respectively, and we ate lots of barbecued ribs and chicken and drank beer (in stinking hot temperatures) at my house and then headed off to Bluesfest to catch some acts.
- He referred in letters home, when he first got here in May of 1831, to what he called the stinking arrogance of Americans, the fact that halfway through a conversation with you they insist on, you know, spitting some long stream of tobacco juice into the corner of the room or that they'd shake hands with you as though they'd known you for 10 years, and so on and so on.
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