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Meanings of ill-smelling in English

Portuguese
fedorento

Having an unpleasant smell.

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Usage of ill-smelling in English
1
Alwin drew away in disgust from the touch of his ill-smelling garments.
The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days
2
The interior was smoky and ill-smelling, but the equipment was wholly familiar.
The Pirates of Ersatz
3
A smouldering ill-smelling ash heap told the fate of the other wagons.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
4
Stooping, he entered the ill-smelling circular conduit, groping his way slowly along.
The Mad King
5
It was an ill-smelling, cheap box, whose sole ornaments were advertising lithographs.
The Rules of the Game
6
The ground was hard, the rushes ill-smelling, and my brothers snore frightfully.
A clash of kings
7
There was no light in the ill-smelling shack that served for a latrine.
Three Soldiers
8
They found him in a small public library on an ill-smelling ghetto street.
His Family
9
The amusing part is that she is old, ugly and ill-smelling.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 3...
10
The place was frowzy and ill-smelling, but he did not care.
The Blood Red Dawn
11
They never received butter, but a rancid and ill-smelling substance called sweet oil.
American Prisoners of the Revolution
12
Without them this pond would be no longer beautiful, but foul and ill-smelling.
The Ontario Readers: Third Book
13
The soap maker's caldron sends up a cloud of ill-smelling steam.
History of California
14
The air in the room was consequently heavy and ill-smelling.
The Goose Man
15
This corridor was darker and more ill-smelling than the first.
The Awakening / (The Resurrection)
16
The court-itwas not much more than twenty feet square-waslike an ill-smelling oven.
Australia Felix
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Translations for ill-smelling
Ill-smelling through the time
Ill-smelling across language varieties
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