(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.
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.