odorous
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One of his recurring subjects was meat, from flayed rabbits to rayfish, with odorous side effects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Politicians helping their weakest opponent — while odorous — makes strategic sense in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
The incandescent bulb’s bright light replaced the dim and often odorous illumination of oil and gas lamps that brought the risk of fire and, in the case of gas, of suffocation and explosions.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
There, a chance encounter with an older member of the community, who remembered the researchers who first described the species decades prior, led them to a particularly odorous subterranean cave.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2021
“Balderdash. Is this because I hissed at that odorous dog?”
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
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