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stinking

[sting-king] / ˈstɪŋ kɪŋ /


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Stafford Hopkins is good-looking, brilliant, successful and stinking rich.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

"Harry Milne, for me, he tried everything he possible could to affect the game, to drive Hearts forward. Other than him, pretty much all of them were stinking."

From BBC Feb. 10, 2026

A poisonous river of a stinking yellow liquid rushed downhill, inundating homes and fields, including the one where she grew corn to feed her eight children.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 28, 2025

I share Vejar’s loathing for the relentless “tree of heaven,” the deciduous plant that is sometimes called a stinking sumac.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2025

Half their size, it dove through the scribble of their ragged, stinking wings, driving them back with its piercing cry.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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