malodorous

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  1. adjective Having a bad odor; foul.

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  • The question, however, put to him shows the direct interest that the German authorities took in the existence of this malodorous organisation. —  My Four Years in Germany
  • With quick strokes, he skinned the beast he had shot He draped the distinctive black-and-white hide over him like a coat Doc now walked boldly out of the thorn thicket The hopping monster, mistaking him for the malodorous animal, in the hide of which he was masquerading, backed off Even the flying reptiles, the batlike pterodactyls, made the same mistake. —  002 - The Land of Terror
  • Profit to me out of it, except to keep his own soul clear and sound (to his own sense, as it always will be to mine), is perfectly indifferent; and on the whole I thank him heartily for showing me a chivalrous human brother, instead of the usual vulturous, malodorous, and much avoidable phenomenon, in Transatlantic Bibliopoly! —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • I was paralyzed—I have no memory of reacting, until I found myself on my back, curled into a half-ball, as a shukri brought to bay will do, biting and clawing madly at an assailant too vast for the malodorous little beast even to conceive of. —  FSF,May2004
  • Some good possibilities arose: fetid, malodorous, rancid, rank, smelly, stinking, whiffy. —  Weekly Dig - Humor, News + Nightlife
 

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/mælˈoʊdərəs/
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