stinking

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Even Yankee killer Jason Bay got into the act of stinking, as he had an 0-ffer night, striking out twice.

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  • "Like fever Malaya's stinking, the rain's stinking, the heat's stinking, malaria's stinking, the bugs're stinking and the flies're stinking," Larkin said. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • A horrid, stinking, wormy mess that dares call itself taxidermy! —  Knocking From Inside
  • ThinkGeek:: Tauntaun Sleeping Bag - Use the glowing lightsaber zipper pull on the Tauntaun sleeping bag to illustrate how Han Solo saved Luke Skywalker from certain death in the freezing climate of Hoth by slitting open the belly of a dead Tauntaun and placing Luke inside the stinking (but warm) carcass. —  Geektronica.com
  • There's no wonder it's being dumped onto cinema in February (aka the stinking shit-pile cinema release month), but what really shocks me is that —  Transbuddha
  • Why should a person breath in the stinking, smelly air instead of a cigarette? —  Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
 

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stinking:   stink ·  stunk ·  stinks
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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