stenchful

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stenchful
Adjective
  • The texture of putrid glurp is akin to applesauce, and the flavor is mildly savory with hints of lemon and carrot in the aftertaste.
    Pete Cottell, Wired News, 17 July 2025
  • While this position was not up to par last season by anyone’s estimation, the Penguins generally believe that their putrid defensive work last season — not their goaltending itself — was the biggest reason for their inability to prevent goals.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Rue was considered the most malodorous of all herbs, was even thought to keep away evil spirits, and was spread on church floors for this purpose.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their stories include the reasons that kept them from evacuating and then the harrowing odysseys that took some of them through fetid streets of flood waters, others to the nightmare that was the Superdome or the Convention Center, and still others across impassable bridges and freeways.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 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
Adjective
  • The smelly, hairy animals with terrible eyesight are actually a type of mammal known as a collared peccary.
    Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2025
  • Words for different smells, or things that are smelly.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Having gone in the tank for Griffin, North Carolina’s highest courts are a noisome example of why partisanship ought to have no place in judicial selection.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2025
  • To question the sincerity of the president’s rhetoric—and that of his party—is not to dismiss the challenge posed by the various noisome currents of antidemocratic sentiment and behavior running through our politics like the effluence of overflowing sewers.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • Fish supplements that contain omega-3s are prone to going rancid.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Much of the damage was from flooding, which left a thick layer of rancid muck on her floors.
    Stephen Smith and Bobby Caina Calvan, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • Let’s rank powers and see who is up and down to start the second half.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 22 July 2025
  • Cosby’s good guys do things that outpace the rankest villainy in the work of other crime writers.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 8 July 2025
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“Stenchful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stenchful. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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