as in stinking
having an unpleasant smell
that fetid cheese from Belgium is definitely an acquired taste
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Recent Examples of fetid
Decades of despoiling water bodies have taken a terrible toll, filling water bodies with fetid algae that blocks sunlight and smothers the native seagrass beds that are a main food source for manatees.
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
The stumps of dead Joshua trees jutted from the fetid ground cover, while a few others, still alive, appeared anemic and were adorned in wispy strands of plastic debris and dust.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.
—Graham Techler, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
Only one of them has a fetish for the fetid stink of porta potties, but the other one has their weird kinks too.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
The stumps of dead Joshua trees jutted from the fetid ground cover, while a few others, still alive, appeared anemic and were adorned in wispy strands of plastic debris and dust.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.
—Graham Techler, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
Only one of them has a fetish for the fetid stink of porta potties, but the other one has their weird kinks too.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fetid
Adjective
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This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
22 Dec. 2019
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Muttaiah said the man inside the stinking manhole was working without any safety equipment — no gloves, no shoes, no supplemental oxygen.—
Joanna Slater,
Washington Post,
16 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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Skorup suggested that the public interest standard was ripe for a challenge, given the current court’s skepticism of broad regulatory power.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
19 Sep. 2025
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By the mid-Aughts, the deindustrializing superpower, committed to forever wars abroad and extreme inequality at home, was ripe for Trumpism.—
Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Midsummer is usually when sargassum, the floating seaweed that often washes up in malodorous piles on Florida beaches, starts to wane.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Callery pear and Bradford pear trees are considered malodorous, according to the Spruce, a home and garden site.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Jessica Post, who lives near Auburn and was sitting near the right field foul pole with her sister, Deanna Ritter of Roseville, was happy the A’s had put the flags to half-staff.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Then second baseman Máximo Acosta chased down the ball in foul territory and threw wildly past third.—
Steve Gorten,
Miami Herald,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Avoid adding smelly meats, fruit rinds or other sweet-smelling food scraps to your compost.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Sep. 2025
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Once cool, pour it into a spray bottle and lightly mist the smelly surfaces.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Don’t notice all the ways humans are disgusting.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Sep. 2025
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But this disgusting and hateful speech is still speech and is protected by our First Amendment.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Grab a sponge and a bucket, some vinegar, and dish soap, and scrub away that filthy grime.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
19 Sep. 2025
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Nothing sends chills down your spine like evil clowns, undead monsters and a filthy car.—
Charlie Vargas,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The fabric also features Lululemon’s signature Silverescent technology, which prevents the growth of stinky bacteria.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
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An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Fetid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fetid. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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