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Meanings of foetid in English

Offensively malodorous.

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Usage of foetid in English
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They were dark-coloured and when first taken out had a foetid smell.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
2
They could endure, just then, no more of the foetid atmosphere inside.
Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories
3
It has two anal glands, from which it can squirt a foetid secretion.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
4
Les Innocentshas become so foetid as to drive its neighbours to intimate madness.
The Irish Times
5
His voice bobbed slowly back to Yagharek on the foetid air.
Perdido Street Station
6
He lay cuddling Lin with his back to the foetid wall.
Perdido Street Station
7
Their clothes and their letters reek with the foetid secretion of the musk deer.
"I Say No"
8
He smelled the foetid odor, which cut through his absorption because of its connotations.
Operation Terror
9
It was, like the train that took us there, hot, foetid, crowded and threadbare.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
10
It may or may not be extremely foetid, and often it is mingled with blood.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
11
Knolls, valleys, quarries and pools bubbling with foetid gas.
Perdido Street Station
12
It opened silently, letting a wedge of bright light spill out into the foetid alley.
The Naked God
13
Jal-Nish had a sweetly foetid smell, with metallic overtones.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
14
And at the bottom of each of these holes lay a pool of foetid green water.
No Man's Land
15
The air they breathed was hot and foetid.
The Wings of the Morning
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Everything in sight was enamelled with white paint and clammy with the sweat of that foetid air.
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
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