stink

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

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 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

Maybe some choose to marvel at this one-in-a-lifetime behemoth stuck in our midst and ignore the stink.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

But Baachan had insisted, and Mama gave Hanako the stink eye when she started to protest.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

“Something where everybody stinks is the ideal sort of outing,” Norton says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

Her stats are decent, but her attitude stinks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Inside the Justice Department, the resolution was demoralizing: “He’s admitted he owes money, and we get money, but everything else about it stinks to high heaven,” said a current DOJ official familiar with the case.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

It stinks to be the one with the target on your back and be the one who can’t go anywhere.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

Also Mencken: “The whole place stank of orange blossoms.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

It wasn’t only my sneakers that stank; all my clothes were>dingy and mildewed — but at least everything was holding together.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

We didn’t have whales, just freshwater fish like alewifes, which stunk up the beaches with annual die-offs that occurred in huge numbers.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

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 kind of stunk that we lost. But I knew it was the last time I was going to put on a uniform. I was privileged to wear it for as long as I did.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

“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

The hot and sticky air stunk of car exhaust.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis

“These are all the struggles I think about every stinking day,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Not the good, high-altitude ozone that shields us from dangerous UV light, but bad ozone, hovering right above ground level — stinking, brownish, grayish photochemical smog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 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

Skinny and stinking and starving and all the time next to a cute boy who I like so much, it hurts.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake