Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an unpleasant smell
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bask-Wah-Wan, hobbling fearfully in advance, proud indeed, yet awed by her wonderful son, led him to her igloo and stowed him away among the greasy, ill-smelling furs.
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Bask-Wah-Wan, hobbling fearfully in advance, proud indeed, yet awed by her wonderful son, led him to her igloo and stowed him away among the greasy, ill-smelling furs.
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It was a dark ill-smelling hole, but he ordered King into it and the Pathan after him on guard, after first seeing the women pile all their loads inside.
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Lazrus took them through one small warehouse-sized room and into a warren of ill-smelling hallways lined with pipes and painted the universal olive green of bad adventure movies from the dawn of the corporate age.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 8.2 of 31.1
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Hence the importance of the eunuchs— deformed, ill-smelling,‡ and eminently bribable.
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No one emptied the Café des Amateurs though, and its yellowed poster stating the terms and penalties of the law against public drunkenness was as flyblown and disregarded as its clients were constant and ill-smelling.
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It was certainly a pleasanter method of travel than an ill-smelling, drafty hackney carriage.
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It was certainly a pleasanter method of travel than an ill-smelling, drafty hackney carriage.
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You beheld a rosebush capped with printed paper in such a sort that the flowers of rhetoric were perfumed by the cankered blossoms of that ill-kept, ill-smelling garden.
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His hands were so hard, so large, and so ill-smelling.
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