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stinking
[ sting-king ]
stinking
/ ˈstɪŋkɪŋ /
adjective
- having a foul smell
- informal.unpleasant or disgusting
- slang.postpositive very drunk
adverb
- informal.(intensifier, expressing contempt for the person referred to)
stinking rich
Derived Forms
- ˈstinkingness, noun
- ˈstinkingly, adverb
Other Words From
- stinking·ly adverb
- stinking·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
One ancient source described aspiring scribes as “stinking bulls.”
And “stinking rich” is the smell of zero carbon emissions at eco-friendly tech company campuses.
Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
But the language about public schools and cricket bewildered audiences and Frank Rich gave it a stinking review.
She goes on to dismiss “stinking romanticism” as sick, akin to “boils & blisters & warts.”
And Alfonso goes, "Badges, we don't need no stinking badges" and starts shooting at them.
If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.
Again, we will pass through stinking sewers, up to our elbows in putrid filth.
It makes me smile, Why, what a stinking smother will they utter!
Extract of stinking goose-foot; Extractum chenopodii, L. Prep.
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