putridity

But with some creatures like antlion larvae — eaten by animals, like birds, that are attuned to movement — the key may not be fake putridity, but stillness, said Dr. Franks, who for this reason prefers the term “post-contact immobility.”

If effective resistance happens at all, it will come from values-based, religiously motivated conservatives who can no longer stomach the moral putridity of Trumpism.

But an equally alarming problem surfaced as offenses reached new levels of putridity.

An eyewitness in 1860 cast an eye on the city’s canals and glimpsed “dead cats and all kinds of putridity,” in a stagnant pool “reeking with pestilential odors.”

Charles Darwin did them no favors when he saw a turkey vulture from the deck of the Beagle in 1835 and called it a “disgusting bird” whose bald head was “formed to wallow in putridity.”