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n. - A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.

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  • By the age of 5, his talent for sniffing out every kind of malodor is already evident, but nothing prepares him for what he encounters after being sold as an apprentice...
  • "What's that on your face?" she asked, wincing against the brunt of the malodor clinging to him.
  • "You can mask them for a little bit, but the mask usually vanishes before the malodor does," he says.
  • Though the malodor team moved to a new and well-ventilated laboratory in July, odor "escapes" still happen.
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