Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a stinking manner; disgustingly; with an offensive smell.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a stinking way.

Etymologies

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stinking +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Karen's second case is that of the missing grandson of the local laird and stinkingly rich magnate Broderick Grant.

    A Darker Domain by Val McDermid Maxine 2009

  • Karen's second case is that of the missing grandson of the local laird and stinkingly rich magnate Broderick Grant.

    Book review Maxine 2009

  • Karen's second case is that of the missing grandson of the local laird and stinkingly rich magnate Broderick Grant.

    A Darker Domain by Val McDermid Maxine 2009

  • Karen's second case is that of the missing grandson of the local laird and stinkingly rich magnate Broderick Grant.

    April 2009 Maxine 2009

  • Newt Gingrich: his rise in the polls followed his stinkingly awesome so they say debate performance last Monday, which was perfectly timed.

    South Carolina Republican debate – as it happened 2012

  • Reading stories like that jus reassures me that I am going to be stinkingly rich like that one day and spend that much on ma daughter's wedding ...

    Here and there 2008

  • The dark hair was parted down the middle and slicked with a stinkingly sweet pomade that at once brought back the memory of a dark Paris street and the curve of thin, cruel lips beneath a mask.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • Fair enough, if the horse ran stinkingly badly I would acknowledge my mistake and do a salutary spot of grovelling.

    Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

  • Fair enough, if the horse ran stinkingly badly I would acknowledge my mistake and do a salutary spot of grovelling.

    Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

  • Not mildly inebriated, as he often was, but good and stinkingly drunk.

    Murder Can Be Fun Brown, Fredric, 1906-1972 1948

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