What's the difference between stink and stinker?

Stink


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
  • (v. t.) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
  • (n.) A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ken Livingstone's campaign said: "It stinks of the abuse of public resources for the Conservative party to appropriate the official social media of the mayor.
  • (2) But nothing has been done about the stinking open sewers that run through the densely packed community and overflow whenever there is heavy rain.
  • (3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
  • (4) Rare that a story stinks from every possible angle: the source, the content, the consequence, the messenger, the target,” tweeted Wolfgang Blau, chief digital officer of Condé Nast International and a former Guardian executive.
  • (5) For many people in this former railway town, the lies told by a politician do not stink as much as the pooch problem.
  • (6) Candidate members of the family include kangaroo hepatitis virus (KHV) and stink snake hepatitis virus (SSHV).
  • (7) wen we 1st met at one of her regular dog fights, i was bein sick cos of all the blood and she came up 2 me and sed 'all dogs deserve to suffr cos they stink and they are stupid'.
  • (8) But the wages still stink, the hours are still brutal, and the children are still there, stitching away in the backstreets of the slums.
  • (9) Some Romney supporters might argue that this election is still about the economy and the economy stinks – bad for the incumbent.
  • (10) And when you ask someone who’s passed along some specious “don’t get raped” tips or suggested a self-defense class to a woman concerned about rapes in her neighborhood what they were thinking, they’re likely to respond with something like “Better safe than sorry!” Translation: Even if what I’m telling you to remember is a pile of stinking horseshit, you should still engage in this ritualized expression of anxiety with me, because it makes me feel slightly better about things I can’t control.
  • (11) This time it was so obviously, demonstratively false, that it cut through the usual stink cloud of dubious accuracy that hovers over Fox at all times, and caused international outrage as opposed to just tweaking American liberals.
  • (12) They marched with signs that read, “Fear City, Stink City and now, Stupid City.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Striking New York garbagemen stand by signs reading “Stink City” AND “Abe is nuts”.
  • (13) Jeremy, stinking and stinging rather than digging for interview victory, can't match what James O'Brien of LBC did to Farage last month .
  • (14) One minute it's all "when will you WAKE UP to the fact that your STINKING LIBERAL MANURE has DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY" and the next thing you know, you'll get a message saying, "Sorry I was testy, I just got stuck in traffic on my way back from the garden centre."
  • (15) The alarm call came a year later, when he woke up on the sofa one morning, stinking of booze, with his baby son crawling on him and half a can of beer on the floor next to him.
  • (16) Twice, Dughan boarded pitching, stinking decks to transmit to them close-up footage, from which they learnt nothing.
  • (17) Shami Chakrabarti has undermined the education system she argues for | Frances Ryan Read more It’s the system that stinks, of course, and it has to be fought at the policy level, not by individuals at the school gates.
  • (18) But what sticks in my craw is the sheer stinking, blunted crapness of them.
  • (19) The air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of pure "sweet bonny" light crude oil.
  • (20) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.

Stinker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, stinks.
  • (n.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were immediately sure he despised the movie more than any of the other Hollywood McCarthy adaptations – and there had been a few stinkers.
  • (2) Instead, it was a stinker, at least for countries in the developed world.
  • (3) Remember, for example, that everyone was doing excitable discharges about 2006 after the first week, and it turned out to be a stinker.
  • (4) 9.12am BST Michael Cox gets forensic to explain why last night's match was such a stinker.
  • (5) Stones is another player whose performances have impressed Hodgson recently but the jittery young Everton defender picked the wrong time to have a stinker.
  • (6) It was this break with reality that sunk the genre in the nineties, causing big-name stars to turn in a series of stinkers, including Body of Evidence starring Madonna and the plain uncomfortable Bruce Willis vehicle Colour of Night.
  • (7) Every class has a stinker; mine doesn't believe in deodorant.
  • (8) Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading."
  • (9) As Jack Nicholson's con-man brother in The King Of Marvin Gardens , he embodies the self-delusion of the American dream of success and wealth, while his brutish Tom Buchanan in the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby is one of the few worthwhile things about that stinker.
  • (10) And he has lifted them up.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: ‘half of Trump’s supporters go into the basket of deplorables’ And so the “basket of deplorables” has found its place alongside other debris in the gaffe sewer of recent elections, including this stinker from a fundraiser in San Francisco in 2008: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.
  • (11) Walsh has pointed to the financial crisis and downturn that hit Spain harder than many countries in Europe as one reason why BA's deal was starting to look a potential stinker.
  • (12) There have been some fantastic ones in the CoD lifeline – Crash, Terminal, Crossfire – but also some stinkers that somehow made it though; maps with horrible camping spots and site lines that strafe the whole arena.
  • (13) And with Giround having such a stinker, they only really threaten when a midfielder runs forward from deep, something that Ramsey is doing with curious infrequency.
  • (14) Only I had two genuine stinkers, Algeria v Slovenia and Paraguay v Japan, which is a pretty good return, all told.
  • (15) His chief pleasure, he noted, was "writing stinkers to people who attack me in the press".
  • (16) In case you missed it, The Sun called Cameron’s deal “a steaming pile of manure” , “a derisory offer” and “a stinker” that’s “an abject defeat on immigration”.
  • (17) Seriously, there were too many stinkers, but losing 3-1 against Philadelphia was particularly rough, because Chivas went ahead before a terrible refereeing decision torpedoed any hopes of getting a result.