stink

Innuendo leaves a lingering stink that’s harder to dispel.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

The plant started to open late Tuesday, and then it was game on for Wednesday, with Morticia at the peak of its stink power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

A new breeze baptized us in another vile stink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

So does it stink that the semiquincentennial has been such a flop?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

It was like a dance, a dance in the stink of sheep and the smell of newborn steam coming off the lambs and the sounds of them, mothers and lambs, finding one another and love.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

Imagine this conversation with your spouse or roommate: “Dude, what is that smell? It stinks like burning diapers. Did you forget to pay the air?”

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

He thinks each individual plant stinks more than previous blooms, but on top of that, he said: “The fact that we have two in bloom makes it stinkier.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Here in La Guaira, which in happier times is a beach resort for people making a day trip from Caracas, the air now stinks of death.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Scratchy and stiff, it stinks of the stale urine used to set the dye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The cottage stinks like a midden — baby’s mess everywhere.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

He found a place in Astana in an apartment that stank of cat.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Black singers get it: You’re practicing the art of stank.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

According to one account, the sulfurous stank emanating from the White House lawn polluted the air for about three-square miles.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023

It was posted in a cardboard envelope and "absolutely stank" she said, filled with sand and seaweed.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2023

The hall stank of garbage, urine, and other thick smells I couldn’t recognize.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

For the past five years, returns have stunk, especially following a 28% tumble for the ETF since the end of October.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

“It was disgusting,” she said, explaining that the walls were damp and mouldy, while the flat was dirty and stunk of cigarette smoke.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024

At the time, Garvey was trying to organize charity sports events, which he stunk at, to put it politely.

From Slate ● May 29, 2024

“I did a lousy job my last year of managing,″ Leyland said then. ”I stunk because I was burned out.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

“Heard that old wreck of yours finally went under. Good riddance! Ugly thing stunk up the whole creek. That wasn’t a boat—it was an outhouse!”

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Miles and miles of refineries and their stinking tailings ponds, adjacent to beach resorts that run on desalination plants.

From Salon ● Mar. 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

Teeth waddles in front of me, guiding me along a human path made of crushed stone stuck together with some kind of resin, like sap, only awful and stinking.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz