stinkingadjective
uk/ˈstɪŋ.kɪŋ/us/ˈstɪŋ.kɪŋ/informalstinking adjective (SMELL)
having a very unpleasant smell:
a pile of stinking rotten food
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Smells & smelling
- acrid
- aroma
- beery
- bouquet
- cheesy
- foetid
- fragrance
- frowsty
- odour
- putrid
- scratch-and-sniff
- smell somewhere out
- smell sth/sb out
- smelly
- sniff sth/sb out
- sour
- stagnant
- stinky
- waft
- woody
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stinking adjective (BAD)
very unpleasant or bad:
I hate this stinking job!
UK She had a stinking cold and felt very sorry for herself.
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Serious and unpleasant
- abominable
- abysmal
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- awfully
- belief
- corrosive
- ghastly
- grim
- grisly
- grotesque
- gruesome
- hate
- noxious
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- shitty
- shocking
- wretched
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Idiom(s)
be stinking rich