offensive smell
Example Sentences
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“Along with an offensive smell, that laceration may be accompanied by bleeding from the mouth, signs of pain, excessive drooling or pawing at the side of the face,” Dr. de Jong says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2018
This is an excellent poultice to ease pain arising from a sore; it not only cleanses it, but takes off the offensive smell which generally attends such complaints.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
The cabbage decays with a strong, offensive smell when its tissues finally break down after repeated changes of temperature and moisture.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
The sponge has a peculiarly strong and offensive smell.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
To this perhaps the offensive smell referred to may be chiefly attributed.
From Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology by Hammond, William Alexander
