fetid

Example Sentences

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Its incessant deployment, experts warn, could render Venice’s lagoon a fetid swamp choked by noxious algae, turning the city’s charming canals into stinking open sewers.

From New York Times

Over time, as other racist, sexist and ableist elements in beloved stories grow more fetid and indefensible, who’s to say those shouldn’t also be adjusted for children?

From Washington Post

They are just as responsible for the fetid mess the Republican Party has become as Donald Trump is.

From Salon

The minority leader’s fear of alienating the Trumpian voters who inhabit the more fetid corners of the Republican base was greater than his sense of duty to the institution that Greene now dishonors.

From Washington Post

Those agricultural pools generally have a striking bubble-gum-pink hue, a deceptively cheerful color that results from anaerobic bacteria that digest the fetid slurry, a mixture of water, animal excrement and chemicals.

From New York Times