offensive smell
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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
I let the 'cucurrachos' pass, for I recognise in them my old familiar friend the cockroach, whose worst crime is to leave an offensive smell on every object he touches.
From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman
To this perhaps the offensive smell referred to may be chiefly attributed.
From Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology by William Alexander Hammond
The caterpillars of the Swallow-tailed moths, when irritated, give out an offensive smell, but they are unable to 'spray.'
From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various
I had not lain long before I was driven, by an exceedingly offensive smell, to search for a cleaner neighborhood; but I found all the cots, fore and aft, were either occupied or engaged.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
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