Stinking

/ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a pungent smell..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a pungent smell.
2. Very bad and undesirable.
3. (slang) Very drunk.
4. (euphemistic) An intensifier, a hypallage.
5. present participle and gerund of stink
6. The emission of a foul smell.

Example Sentences

I have a stinking cold.

Oh, I got stinking—and, worse, acted like the world's worst heel to top it off. I passed out mentally about the time we left the club—which must have been around 2:30—but unfortunately didn't pass out physically.

We don’t need your stinking sympathy.

“Everyone shut up! Lord ThunderSteel commands it! I am your leader! I have this badge that says so!” “We don’t need no stinking badges!”

From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.

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Word Forms

• more stinking
• most stinking
• stinkings

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