foetor

NOUN
  1. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

How To Use foetor In A Sentence

  • The foetor of decay hung over the town, clogging her throat like putrid dust. The Silicon Mage
  • Anyone can imitate him, in mediocre fashion, by tossing around words like "glabrous" and "foetor. Boing Boing
  • Liver failure causes 'breath of the dead' - foetor hepaticus - due to a mix of compounds that pass into the lungs. The Sun
  • Nope, this is a day you wish he'd written a long, whiny letter to his aunts about those bastard Syrians next door, or maybe just spent the day inventing new spellings for "foetor" or patronizingly explaining Nietzsche to Frank Belknap Long. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • As they approached, cautious, ready for anything, Joanna was conscious of the nauseating foetor of decay that hung in the raw air. The Silicon Mage
  • Exitque de illo per totum ignis obscuratus fumo, et foetor, tantus, quòd per magnum spatium viæ pessimam vallem infectat. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Oral malodour (foetor oris) predominantly originates from the tongue coating, gingival crevice, and periodontal pockets.
  • Oral malodour (foetor oris) predominantly originates from the tongue coating, gingival crevice, and periodontal pockets.
  • That is before we even begin to contemplate how we might view the character of this individual, who permanently carries with him the foetor of the dung heap. Mendacious Mandy: Take Everything With A Pinch Of Salt
  • Contributing to this foetor was the smell emanating from the table, whose surface was littered with the vestiges of various meals—the decaying fragments of a catfish; the partially gnawed disjecta membra of a chicken; a beef bone to which waxy gobbets of congealed fat continued to cling. Nevermore
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