What's the difference between smelly and stinky?

Smelly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Am I suggesting, like an anti-racist Alf Garnett, that we keep out these foreign xenophobes who come here with their funny gestures, spreading their strange, smelly hatreds?
  • (2) Factor analysis yielded four indices: a) impact of disease (e.g., being a burden, loss of energy, loss of bowel control); b) sexual intimacy; c) complications of disease (e.g., developing cancer, having surgery, dying early); and d) body stigma (e.g., feeling dirty or smelly).
  • (3) It’s not as smelly as people imagine (myth number three), but it is still unpleasant, especially when the space is this confined, and one of the men tells me he reckons they are underpaid for what they do.
  • (4) Protesters of whatever variety will have taken on board the outcome of the Smellie trial.
  • (5) I had a daily urge to wave the white flag, especially after 10 smelly days without a bath.
  • (6) We prefered the method of Lövset und Veit-Smellie.
  • (7) Smellie, from the Met's territorial support group (TSG), a specialist public order unit, argued during his trial that he believed Fisher posed a threat to himself and fellow officers.
  • (8) Delroy Smellie was suspended last year after video footage was posted on YouTube showing him back-handing a protester and striking her twice on the legs with his metal baton.
  • (9) It’s a shame Blanc doesn’t have a load of old smelly chicken going cheap.
  • (10) He wasn't quite ready, though, for baked cheese, with all its smelly and delicious gooeyness.
  • (11) So you end up with two pairs of clothes and rather smelly."
  • (12) In her ruling today, the judge said she was satisfied that, faced with a protester "seeking confrontation", Smellie could not have used other options.
  • (13) Smellie, from the Met's territorial support group (TSG), was investigated after YouTube footage showed him striking Fisher with the back of his hand, then twice with a baton.
  • (14) I'm really not a germaphobe, but come on; not washing your trousers is disgusting, and not washing your trousers for five weeks when you're in a hot country, watching sport all day surrounded by smelly men, is really, really disgusting.
  • (15) You are variously described as unhygienic, smelly, scroungers, timewasters, uncommitted and the like.
  • (16) I have plenty of friends who insist that "smelly dog" stays in the cot, or that "green piggy" is only for nap time.
  • (17) Nodding to the judge after the hearing, Smellie said: "Thank you very much."
  • (18) Smellie told the court that, had he used other tactics, such as an elbow, he could have broken Fisher's bones.
  • (19) "One of them brought a speciality smelly fish from Norway into the restaurant and started eating it in front of customers.
  • (20) In a survey completed after the program, 23 nurses reported that they had less difficulty touching a smelly foot (p less than .02), that they would be less bothered by a foot with an odor (p less than .03), that they would have less difficulty touching an unsightly foot depicted in a slide (p less than .03), and that they felt less anger at patients who don't follow recommendations (p less than .03).

Stinky


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe you understand the twinkling of the stars, the falling of objects to earth or what it takes to be an astronaut, or you’ve battled a dragon or discovered just how stinky the stinky past could be in a horrible history.
  • (2) If you're going to opine about cheese, it's best to know your washed rind (stinky) from your bloomy rind (buttery).
  • (3) In March 2002, a pre-buzzcut Justin Timberlake broke up with a pre-breakdown Britney Spears after a three-year relationship which saw them blossom from perma-smiling Mouseketeers to pin-ups for young love (they used to call each other Stinky and Pinky!).
  • (4) I took off my stinky travel clothes and stepped into the shower for 10 uninterrupted minutes.
  • (5) How this charismatic-if-potentially-stinky Antipodean reached rural England is anyone’s guess.
  • (6) Immediately after the admission, cystostomy was carried out and 600 ml of stinky and cloudy urine was noted.
  • (7) Not included in that last category were Pengy, Ellie, Joe, Schmo, Candle, Sweepy, Big Hilda, The Bear in the Big Blue House, Oie, Dal, Tina's Pussy, Stinky, Piggy … These creatures all had names.
  • (8) You could even make out in some of them – especially the foul-smelling but charismatic Stinky – the faintest outline of a personality.
  • (9) They were visiting a Scottish farm, and each of them had a shovel, or perhaps a fork, in their hands, on the end of which there was balanced a mound of something brown and stinky-looking.
  • (10) Kids can design a stegosaurus, smell the stinky breath of a carnivore and scream at a bloody-jawed animatronic raptor.
  • (11) We ate lunch huddled around this metal heater in a stinky old sheep-house.
  • (12) We do sometimes seem, the three of us, the pasteurised cheese on the cheeseboard and then Ukip is the rich ripe stinky alternative and people think: 'Don't mind having a slice of that.'
  • (13) On a mud bank, a lizard suns itself, while high up in the tree canopy, we catch glimpses of flying monkeys and grunting Hoatzin "stinky turkeys" – prehistoric survivors with claws that grow into wings, which could have inspired the creatures in James Cameron's film Avatar.
  • (14) The latest collection of stinky loans within Anglo Irish Bank is being transferred to the national "bad bank" at just 33% of face value.
  • (15) No child raised on Dear Zoo , with a toy zoo, warbling: “We’re going to the zoo”, is likely to seize on the contradiction between loving animals and wanting to see them rocking inside in small, stinky stalls.