fetidness

• “The inherent fetidness of the charter school model is without parallel in the history of American schooling.”

  Imagine, Inc. Charter Schools and Real Estate

• “A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in which he stood.”

  Les Miserables

• “One there breathes the enormous fetidness of social catastrophes.”

  Les Miserables

• “Read as an example of modern fetidness, in the last number of the Vie Parisienne, the article on Marion Delorme.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “His instinct perceived the fetidness of poverty, but no longer ferreted out the deeper evils in pride and sensuality.”

  This Side of Paradise

• “A palpable fetidness that oozed from every pore made the herdsman glad he had not eaten since morning, and then very little.”

  Carnivores of Light and Darkness

• “For sheer degree of fetidness, his untreated morning breath matched any odor rising from the surrounding bog.”

  Into the Thinking Kingdoms

• “Perhaps it would simply be better to let him get it over with and yet the moment she felt the fetidness of his breath against her skin, every muscle in her body clenched in desperate protest.”

  Desire for Revenge

• “But, whether or not this work is taken up by the white men and women of the South, the fetidness of negro sensuality must be eradicated.”

  The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion

• “This fetidness of the opossum is not apparent to my sense.”

  Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers

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