A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
Unpleasant smell (in medical context)
1The air retained the rich fetor of rotting humus and bird droppings.
2I say the fetor anti-judaicus is just as perceptible on them.
3Dark, eerie forest paths lead to ramshackle villages filled with fetor and decay.
4Then I felt a hint of something other than stale fetor against my face.
5Mingled with the Zivver scent was a hidden, evil smell that fouled the air-an unmistakable fetor.
6The thin, needling fetor of cold semen.
7The fetor almost made Temal faint.
8A window left open snares a passing female blowfly, sidling in to explore some promising hint of fetor or corruption.
9The awful fetor remained.
10One does not put a weapon into the hands of a man dying of the fetor and hunger of the siege.
11They say they smell it on us -you know James Joyce's joke: "the fetor judaicus is most perceptible".
12He was blinded by light and deafened by sound and his nostrils were filled with the nauseating fetor of jungle and decay.
13Spring filmed the dormitory air with an almost imperceptible fetor, a warm moist stink that evanesced from the wood around his windowpane.
14At any rate, Ikey toiled and snipped and basted and pressed and patched and sponged all day in the steamy fetor of a tailor-shop.
15For the instant the wind surrounded them, it swept away the fetor, yet he would have done without that, too, if he could have.
16He can then be assailed with safety, but as his breath is a horrible fetor, a spice (of caution) should be used in approaching him.