putridity
Example Sentences
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Without them, we’d live in a world of putridity and pestilence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
But an equally alarming problem surfaced as offenses reached new levels of putridity.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2017
They found meat at Navy depots to be "garbage and putridity in a horrible state".
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2013
I love the crazy steeplechase of the NFL season, but there's some justice to Bill Simmons' complaints about the era of "perpetual putridity."
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2011
You are like unto whitened sepulchres; the outside appears gay, but within all is bones and putridity.
From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Sue, Eugène