odiferous

Example Sentences

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And yet now I saw that afterwards Kane had tweeted his followers to say, “Jolly end-of-term feel backstage. Got to meet the somewhat odiferous Stewart Lee.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2019

The college basketball season has begun under two odiferous clouds, making it reasonable to wonder why this athletic appendage of higher education seems so susceptible to smarminess.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2017

None of these flatus gases can be detected by smell; the odiferous component must come from other trace gases produced by gut bacteria.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2012

The researchers selected four pairs of "odiferous substances" and coated 15 cm circles of clean, demarcated ground area with these substances using a sterile wooden tongue depressor.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2011

“And now I’m going to get some sleep before our coachman delivers us unto the joys of the Ludington family barnyard and their odiferous pigs.”

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson