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Definition of ill-smelling in English: ill-smellingadjective Having an unpleasant smell. ill-smelling foreign cheeses Example sentencesExamples - The door of the stable swung invitingly open, but it was a dark, musty, ill-smelling place.
- So that householders may be warned of escaping gas, ill-smelling or acrid chemicals are injected into the pipes in some sections of the country.
- Nietzsche, who had proposed marriage before turning against her, lashed out in a letter to call her "a dried-up, dirty, ill-smelling monkey".
- Most of the workers lived in large, ill-smelling brick tenements, and these dwellings were badly overcrowded.
- A survey of postwar housing conditions determined that families were crowded together in dark, ill-smelling apartments, and were unable to find better quarters.
- I'm a smoker myself, and tired of all the other flaws of character besides the love of tobacco we are supposed to be in possession of (we are inconsiderate, ill-smelling etc.).
- When walking around the crater I was at times totally enveloped in smoke and other ill-smelling gaseous mixtures.
- The place was filled with an ill-smelling haze from the deep-fat friers in the back kitchen.
- At last he found one of those ill-smelling beetles, with its head stuck way down in the midst of the roots.
Synonyms offensive, unpleasant, nasty, disagreeable, revolting, sickening, obnoxious, noxious
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