Is it bad that as soon as I read "putrescence" I started envisioning the Princess Bride. From Wordnik.com. [Purging the Evil Within] Reference
Are you as sickened as I am by the smell of putrescence?. From Wordnik.com. [THE HORRIBLE SMELL OF PUTRESCENCE] Reference
Smug satisfaction disguises an unmistakable putrescence. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Home] Reference
Suppurating putrescence has a way of tar-pitting its own. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rumsfeld: Too Incompetent For Bush to Fire] Reference
It is in this putrescence that the gospel of hate is bred. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Only, where the superfluent lake, the spongy putrescence, 10. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
As with most putrescence, ours runs deep beneath the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Please God, deliver us from the banality of evil] Reference
A neverending putrescence that poisons the air of nearby cities. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
I will not link to the odiferous pile of putrescence in question. From Wordnik.com. [Another One] Reference
For my part, I tell you he died from the “putrescence of modern times.”. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
I wanted that contrast between putrescence and beauty that can happen there. From Wordnik.com. [Putting Antigone's World in Context] Reference
And a tidy little roundup of the oozing putrescence that is Bill O'Reilly here. From Wordnik.com. [Why most of us hate Bill O'Reilly.] Reference
Between those eyes his Lens squirmed, a putrescence of eerie colors and fuzzy shapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Lensman]
The putrescence wafted up as a family of rats darted through the water to the other side. From Wordnik.com. [horrfff] Reference
'His staff is his divining rod, and he is sniffing for the scent of putrescence below the sand.'. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
The two women's eyes met, and the hint of putrescence drifted into the room on a puff of hot air. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
So it's time to stick a pin into the Fat Old Man and watch him deflate into a pool of putrescence. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney is a communication terrorist] Reference
Even Hegel said that wars invigorate humanity just as the storm preserves the sea from putrescence. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
Sister Doctor put her sleeve to her nose; in her line of work she knew the smell of putrescence all too well. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
Virus, stain, evil smell, putrescence, and miasma were the notions asso - ciated with infection and contagion. From Wordnik.com. [HEALTH AND DISEASE] Reference
It's an online support group for people who've allowed their lives and homes to descend into animal putrescence. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: October 28, 2001 - November 3, 2001 Archives] Reference
We are deeply habituated to think of poison as a product of darkness, of dirt and putrescence, of secrecy and shadows. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Just look at this hulking terror, poised to pounce on common decency and smother it with its blue-smeared putrescence. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
But it never moved to build a gallows occurred to me to be thankful for because all its neighbors had this putrescence. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Give me "Curb Your Enthusiasm" any day of the week; at least Larry David writhes in his putrescence like the rest of us. From Wordnik.com. [found while packing] Reference
The creatures, lying like death in the dust, stank, a bitter smell, the malodor of putrescence mingled with animal scent. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
Their surprising run from putrescence to mediocrity to the brink of a title ended late Sunday, but their future holds promise. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Brady and Vinatieri shine again as Pats beat Panthers 32-29] Reference
When Coulter is invited to spout her putrescence on Larry King Live, the legitimacy granted to her is CNN's fault, not Coulter's. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Daou: Ann Coulter Identifies John Murtha as a Target for Murder] Reference
Back of the factory, almost encircling it with a ring of putrescence, stretched a vast marsh grown over with fir trees and birches. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
So if Expelled's foes ignore that putrescence of a movie, well, I'm betting that means they're just too cowardly to face up to the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Gibbon only chronicled 'putrescence and corruption;' he may be deeply interested in the information that Professor Bryce prefers Pindar to. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
And their numberless billions, springing every moment into existence wherever putrescence appeared, led to the question, How do they originate?. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference
Sighs suffuse the atmosphere and putrescence rises with its legions of leaden ghosts. From Wordnik.com. [The Masque of the Elements] Reference
He denounced the ruling party of Georgia as a mass of floating putrescence, "which rises as it rots and rots as it rises.". From Wordnik.com. [Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage] Reference
If he wants to spout vile, hate-filled putrescence, then it's a safe bet that people will not want to be associated with him. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
I find them all to be even more despicable and contemptable than a putrescence mass, or walking vomit, i.e., it hold it in higher regard. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
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