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Meanings of rancid in English

Smelling of fermentation or staleness.

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                Usage of rancid in English
                1
                An animal odor and a stench of rancid oil pervaded the place.
                Fruitfulness
                2
                If it is rancid, it should not be used in salad dressing.
                School and Home Cooking
                3
                Where once gentility abode was now but a rancid and rude incontinence.
                Roads of Destiny
                4
                Like eggs left too long in the sun, like meat gone rancid.
                Ice Like Fire
                5
                It's a pretty rancid performance for the nation of Shakespeare and Newton.
                The Guardian
                6
                That same furniture in a Spanish-style ranch looked off, like rancid food.
                Secret of the seventh son
                7
                Then he coughed as the bitter, rancid smoke burned at his throat.
                Badge of Infamy
                8
                That is terrible too, because that is culture which has turned rancid.
                The Silent Isle
                9
                There was an odor of rancid butter, spilled wine, and paraffin oil.
                Serge Panine — Volume 02
                10
                The wooden floor is smeared with oil and smells of rancid grease.
                Conquest of the Useless
                11
                Smoke from charred bonfires mingled with the rancid oil of chip vans.
                The Irish Times
                12
                If it smells rancid or rotten, take it down and bin it.
                Radio NZ
                13
                A scrap of rancid pork, and a very small flapjack-burntat that!
                The Gold Trail
                14
                The fetid smells of rancid urine and feces assaulted the Count's nose.
                House of Bathory
                15
                It's like a smell, like something rancid and oozing and... purple, somehow.
                James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
                16
                Her mouth opened and a phlegmy rattle of rancid breath spewed forth.
                Depraved
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