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adj - Having a rank smell.

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  • Only Lothero, of all the others, could stand Sakamoto's graveolent presence.
  • Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging...
  • The stratum of the earth is black and pitchy, and the springs beneath it are of a dark and graveolent water.
  • Now I was getting tired, and bored with the whole business, and stifled with the close atmosphere -- laden with every graveolent horror; besides,
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