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Stinking   /stˈɪŋkɪŋ/   Listen
Stinking

adjective
1.
Very bad.  Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky.  "It's a stinking world"
2.
Offensively malodorous.  Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly.  "The kitchen smelled really funky"



Stink

verb
(past stank; past part. stunk; pres. part. stinking)
1.
Be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance.
2.
Smell badly and offensively.  Synonym: reek.



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"Stinking" Quotes from Famous Books



... had advised the use of these with sulphur, but there was no prospect of obtaining any such thing. Dr. Vaillant'a whole manner pleased me so much, however, that I told him my troubles. When I asked him which of two things I should drink: hot sulphur bath-water or a certain stinking mineral water, he smiled and said: 'Monsieur, vous n'etes que nerveux. All this will only excite you more; you merely need calming. If you will entrust yourself to me, I promise that you will have so far recovered by the end of two months as never to have ...
— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner

... resentment swept the country. One of the keynotes of these talks was sounded by Edward F. Sullivan of Boston at a meeting held at Turnhalle, Lexington Avenue and 85th Street, on June 5th, 1934, when he repeatedly referred to Jews as "dirty, stinking kikes" and announced that he proposed to organize a strong Nazi group ...
— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak

... one of these rooms, and there stood Guffey; and the instant Guffey saw him, he bore down upon him, shaking his fist. "You stinking puppy!" he exclaimed. "You miserable little whelp! You dirty, sneaking hound!" He added a number of other descriptive phrases taken from ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair

... to take away mine office," was the reply. "Here's a couple of lads would leave the greenwood and the free oaks and beeches, for this stinking, ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... of orient." "Harkee, brother, you might give good words, however. An we once fall a-jawing, d'ye see, I can heave out as much bilgewater as another; and since you besmear my sweetheart, Besselia, I can as well bedaub your mistress Aurelia, whom I value no more than old junk, pork slush, or stinking stock-fish." ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett


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