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reeking
adjective as in burning
adjective as in fetid
adjective as in gamy
adjective as in high
Strongest match
adjective as in malodorous
adjective as in noisome
Weak matches
adjective as in odorous
Weak matches
- aromatic
- balmy
- dank
- effluvious
- fetid
- flavorsome
- flowery
- foul
- fragrant
- heady
- honeyed
- loud
- malodorous
- mephitic
- miasmic
- moldy
- musty
- nauseous
- odoriferant
- odoriferous
- offensive
- olfactive
- olfactory
- perfumatory
- perfumed
- perfumy
- pungent
- putrid
- redolent
- rotten
- savorous
- savory
- scent-laden
- scented
- scentful
- skunky
- smelly
- spicy
- stagnant
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- sweet
- sweet-scented
- sweet-smelling
- tumaceous
- unsavory
- whiffy
adjective as in piping
adjective as in putrid
adjective as in rank
adjective as in reeky
adjective as in shrieky
adjective as in shrilly
adjective as in smelly
adjective as in smoky
Strongest matches
adjective as in squalid
adjective as in stale
adjective as in stinking
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
While on the Celtics, Baker was caught showing up to practice reeking of booze.
Reeking of cigarette smoke and body odor, Bassam smiled, seeming to understand and excuse my monolinguism.
The bodies hung there for weeks, reeking and swelling grotesquely in the equatorial heat.
And the man who had done all this—a vulgar upstart out of Paris, reeking of leather and the barrack-room still lived!
The assassins in the court-yard, with weapons reeking with blood, were howling for their prey.
I routed him out, in the dim mephitic place reeking of sour bedding, and put Petersen in his charge.
Too feeble to walk or to stand, he crawled away from the (p. 413) dying and the dead, over the ground reeking with filth.
"That's probably why I found my private laboratory reeking of cyanide fumes a fortnight later," remarked Dorr dryly.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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