foul-smelling

ADJECTIVE
  1. offensively malodorous
    the kitchen smelled really funky
    a foul odor
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How To Use foul-smelling In A Sentence

  • His night watchman, assigned by the doge, was amazed to see their honored guest pull himself out of the water shivering and foul-smelling. THE FAMILY
  • These issues aside, it is also very unpleasant to have foul-smelling smoke blowing into your face when you are trying to enjoy for example, a meal.
  • One of the most terrifying sights in the animal world is an elephant in a state of must: Huge bulls, oozing a weird, foul-smelling, greenish glop from glands near their eyes, behave with violent abandon, taking risks and defying the basic rules of pachyderm propriety and also giving rise to the term "rogue elephant". NYT > Home Page
  • The knock-on effect is that the streets are sewers of foul-smelling rubbish and discarded flyers, with which the council seems woefully unequipped and disinclined to deal.
  • Two feet down in the dirty, foul-smelling water were valves essential to the pumping operation that had to be opened.
  • “My back itches, Spiller,” Galan said, and Spiller took off the bandage and poulticed the wound with foul-smelling liniment, and obligingly scratched up and down his spine. Wildfire
  • Because the well water is discoloured and foul-smelling, people have to walk about two kilometres looking for cleaner water.
  • Thank god for foul-smelling German army jackets bought in moments in weakness from ratty markets in Berlin.
  • Ray is a font of information, dissecting samples with a special knife called a dibber, none to more effect than a white mushroom called the 'Witch's Egg', which when sliced in two reveals a yellowing layer of foul-smelling slime encasing a grey gooey jelly. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The room they entered was a dark, foul-smelling cellar.
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