offensive smell
Example Sentences
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“Along with an offensive smell, that laceration may be accompanied by bleeding from the mouth, signs of pain, excessive drooling or pawing at the side of the face,” Dr. de Jong says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2018
"Yes," said Catharine de M�dicis, "I have been burning several old parchments which gave out such an offensive smell that I put some juniper into the brazier, hence this odor."
From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre
Symptoms.—At first there is simply an increased moisture in the cleft of the frog, accompanied with an offensive smell.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
The leaves are grey, with a strong offensive smell resembling true sage.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Foumart, fōō′m�rt, n. an old name for the polecat, from its offensive smell.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
