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Meanings of fetid in English

Offensively malodorous.

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      1
      The fetid man gave a soft grunt and simply let her go.
      The Last Gladiatrix
      2
      Raj Ahten gasped outside the reavers' stronghold, choking on the fetid air.
      Wizardborn
      3
      His craftiness almost redeemed a fetid Ajax front-line -but not quite.
      The Guardian
      4
      The breeze that wafted through her open window smelled damp and fetid.
      Running with the Demon
      5
      From drains inserted in festering sores fetid matter trickled, drop by drop.
      The Downfall
      6
      And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
      Leaves of Grass
      7
      With the mist came a moist, sticky heat, the air was fetid.
      A Millionaire of Yesterday
      8
      The houses were hovels, worse and more fetid than those at Perth.
      Lectures and Essays
      9
      The floor had recently been washed, and emitted a damp fetid odour.
      The Englishwoman in America
      10
      Beyond that, a fetid stream ran, sending up vapors of sulfur water.
      The Lair of Bones
      11
      All four windows stood open, but the room was dark and fetid.
      The Bone Doll's Twin
      12
      This opened in what had been a fetid basement in early 1982.
      The Guardian
      13
      It produces indigestion, encourages worms, blackens the teeth, and causes fetid breath.
      Dogs and All about Them
      14
      A nauseating odour, fetid and rank, reached the nostrils of the crew.
      The Complete Alien Omnibus
      15
      They could endure, just then, no more of the fetid atmosphere inside.
      Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
      16
      There was a breeze of sorts, but it was fetid and moist.
      Shadow's son
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