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Meanings of stinking in English

Very bad.

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Offensively malodorous.

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Usage of stinking in English
1
Into a stinking ditch; into water that was thick, cold, and slimy.
The lake
2
We'd move out of the stinking trailer and into a nice house.
Knockemstiff
3
Some fish fancy flies, others worms, others a bit of stinking gore.
Servant of a dark god
4
Brooding for four hundred years in his stinking wreck of a castle.
Anno Dracula
5
I'd rather sleep in a sty than stay in this stinking place.
Hood
6
Probably not stinking rich enough for it to make a difference, though.
Wired
7
We've got to finish our job out there in the stinking trenches.
The Soul of the War
8
Every few yards we'd have to negotiate a line of stinking seaweed.
Complete Books of Blood
9
Burning bare them, and his scutcheon was the blue and stinking flame.
The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regain...
10
Well, she was gone now, with pretty well all her stinking kind.
Jacinto's Remnant
11
What have you been bandying my name about for, you stinking knave?'
Sovereign
12
We Para Dix players, we do not fight for the stinking crowd.
Secret of the Dragon
13
As if he had drowned in the brown stinking waters of London.
Rakes and radishes
14
She muttered protests and slapped weakly at me with one stinking hand.
Full dark, no stars
15
With the stinking farts that we might emit in our final moments.
To the end of the land
16
Usually it was around lunchtime, so there was this stinking cafeteria food.
NY Magazine
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Stinking through the time
Stinking across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common