malodorousadj.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets ii. 27 This malodorous phosphorescence of post-mortem sentimentalism.

1856 G. Wilson Gateways Knowl. (1859) 83 If..some mal-odorous body had been mixed with the incense.

1889 J. Ashton Fleet xviii. 230 The river retaliated in such kind, as to become a malodorous and offensive nuisance.

1891 Law Times 90 459/2 This malodorous litigation.

1929 R. S. Lynd & H. M. Lynd Middletown xvii. 225 In 1890..White River was a pleasant stream..but it has shrunk today to a creek discolored by industrial chemicals and malodorous with the city's sewerage.

1946 S. T. Felstead Stars who made Halls ii. 21 Someone had told him about the old Canterbury Arms, away over in that malodorous neighbourhood known as the Lambeth Marshes.

1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors i. 3 A strong whiff of these malodorous views hung in the air during the first twenty or thirty years of this century.

1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 19/1 The missile malodorously discharged itself.

1929 Oxf. Poetry 21 Where brown sticky weed Malodorously lingers.

1988 M. Bishop Unicorn Mountain (1989) xii. 122 Childish claptrap. The mind cheese from which two-bit fantasies were malodorously molded.

1886 F. H. H. Guillemard Cruise Marchesa II. 124 As for malodourousness, it is perhaps one of the few points in which the resemblance between the two cities fails.

1986 T. O. Echewa Crippled Dancer i. iv. 99 Enough malodorousness to kill ten European explorers with fever.