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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

"We had a brand-new baby with bad lungs, and we wake up to a generator running above our heads and the absolutely stinking of petrol," says Laura.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

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

Columnists Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria took it all in before dashing to catch their flights home to California, that place haters depict as a stinking hellhole.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2024

She would be condemned to soften, tan, work with stinking hides.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich




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