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Having the putrid odor of decaying organic matter.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Rodger Tuku, who lost his sister and nephew who were employees at the hotel, said from inside the stifling and putrid-smelling morgue that "Nobody cares about the Kenyan...
  • We're simply eliminating all that putrid-smelling retro petro-pollution from their valuable natural mineral resource and shipping the smelly sludge - at our own...
  • So I might try to change your incentives by playing an opening move in which I announce that I'll build a putrid-smelling sewage disposal plant on my land beside yours...
  •             The time with my canine mother ended abruptly one day when the once-boy, now-man, with a scent of dry blandness, lifted me and my brothers and sisters away from our...
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