What's the difference between stench and stinky?

Stench


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stanch.
  • (v. i.) A smell; an odor.
  • (v. i.) An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
  • (n.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I still have the stench of their debasement in my nostrils.
  • (2) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
  • (3) It was therefore attempted to combat the hospital infections by all means with desodorizing procedures, thus trying primarily to suppress the stench by frequent whitewashing of the rooms, spraying of vinegar, by burning powder and even using precious incense.
  • (4) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
  • (5) In addition, data were collected relating to work activity and exposure to the stenching agent added to the herbicide, atmospheric levels of which were measured with personal monitoring, on a daily basis.
  • (6) That’s good – but not when it fails, and is emitting the stench of a medieval cesspit.
  • (7) Adiós, Rajoy: Spaniards can’t stomach the stench of corruption in ruling party Read more On Tuesday the floor belonged to Sánchez.
  • (8) They are kept in overcrowded cells; they are denied toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap; they are subjected to the constant stench of excrement and refuse in their congested cells [and] they are surrounded by walls smeared with mucus and blood,” said one passage of the lawsuit, which went on to name several more hardships.
  • (9) The stench of corruption and conflict of interest is so heavy around him, it’s inevitable that Congress will be forced to reckon with it.
  • (10) It's also amazing how long senior management at RBS took to fix the bank's Libor controls once the rotten stench emerged.
  • (11) More recently, the stunning beauty of the bay – backdrop for some of Rio’s most spectacular sights – has been at odds with an often appalling stench of human waste and other forms of pollution .
  • (12) Without working plumbing, the stench in the property had become intolerable.
  • (13) He also posted a status update about washing "the stench of public transport off me" once he had gotten his Porsche back from the workshop.
  • (14) Below him pipes of natural gas pump flames into the stack, lighting a fire that will burn day and night for 17 days to bake the bricks at 1080 degrees Celsius, sending the stench of sulphur into the air in billows of steam.
  • (15) Emily Butler, the town clerk in Trout River, Newfoundland said Tuesday the 26-meter (28.4-yard) blue whale is beached next to a community boardwalk and is emitting a powerful stench that is spreading through the town of 600 people.
  • (16) The problem with an open sewer is you cannot escape the stench.
  • (17) But no matter how hard they try, the stench of death is impossible to get rid of.
  • (18) Even so, the authors have decided not to hold an official launch in any of the crap 50, in case linguistic subtleties are lost on, say, Wolverhampton, where smells "permeate the town like the stench of a trapped animal slowly decaying in a drainpipe".
  • (19) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
  • (20) Now some of the younger men and officers are teasing me about the way I smell and the stench in my cell.” In its recent report on older people in prison, the justice committee recommended that older and disabled prisoners should no longer be held in establishments that cannot meet their basic needs, and nor should they be released back into the community without adequate care and support.

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.