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stinking (root: stink)
CIDE DICTIONARY
stinking, a. & n.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stinking, adj. & adv.
--adj.
1 that stinks.
2 sl. very objectionable.
--adv. sl. extremely and usu. objectionably (stinking rich).
--adj.
1 that stinks.
2 sl. very objectionable.
--adv. sl. extremely and usu. objectionably (stinking rich).
Idiom
stinking badger a teledu.
Derivative
stinkingly adv.
THESAURUS
stinking
abhorrent, abominable, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, besotted, bombed, boozy, brackish, bum, canned, cheesy, cloying, contemptible, crappy, creepy, crude, crummy, dastardly, despicable, detestable, dirty, disguised, disgusting, drunk, drunken, execrable, fecal, fetid, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, godawful, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gross, hairy, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, in the bag, inebriated, intoxicated, loaded, loathsome, lousy, low, maggoty, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, muddled, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, overripe, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, poisonous, potted, punk, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shitty, sickening, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, sozzled, spoiled, stenchy, stinky, stoned, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tanked, terrible, tipsy, under the influence, under the weather, vile, villainous, vomity, weevily, woozy, wretched, yecchy, yuckyROGET THESAURUS
stinking
Fetor
N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.For further exploring for "stinking" in Webster Dictionary Online