malodorous


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mal·o·dor·ous

 (măl-ō′dər-əs)
adj.
Having a bad odor; foul.

mal·o′dor·ous·ly adv.
mal·o′dor·ous·ness n.
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malodorous

(mælˈəʊdərəs)
adj
having a bad smell
malˈodorously adv
malˈodorousness n
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mal•o•dor•ous

(mælˈoʊ dər əs)

adj.
1. having a foul odor.
2. disreputable; scandalous.
mal•o′dor•ous•ly, adv.
mal•o′dor•ous•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.malodorous - having an unpleasant smell
fragrant - pleasant-smelling
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malodorous

adjective smelly, stinking, reeking, nauseating, rank, offensive, fetid, foul-smelling, putrid, evil-smelling, noisome, mephitic, niffy (Brit. slang), olid tons of malodorous garbage bags
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malodorous

adjective
Having an unpleasant odor:
Informal: smelly.
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Translations

malodorous

[mæˈləʊdərəs] ADJmaloliente, hediondo
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malodorous

[mælˈəʊdərəs] adj (formal) (= smelly) → malodorant(e)
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malodorous

adj (form)übel riechend
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malodorous

[mælˈəʊdərəs] adj (liter) → maleodorante
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References in classic literature ?
She took the gourd in one hand, and rather than cause the giver pain raised it to her lips, though for the life of her she could scarce restrain the qualm of nausea that surged through her as the malodorous thing approached her nostrils.
These queer cosmopolitan women, deep in complicated love-affairs which they appeared to feel the need of retailing to every one they met, and the magnificent young officers and elderly dyed wits who were the subjects or the recipients of their confidences, were too different from the people Archer had grown up among, too much like expensive and rather malodorous hot-house exotics, to detain his imagination long.
The little flat was hot and stuffy under the August sun, and from the road beat up a malodorous sultriness.
He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his malodorous mouth.
We were prepared for some unpleasantness, for as we were opening the door a faint, malodorous air seemed to exhale through the gaps, but none of us ever expected such an odor as we encountered.
Up to the small hours of the morning I could hear the clinking of his test-tubes which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous experiment.
Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product.
Heys resident A resident of Heys View said complaints had not been heeded and that the malodorous eyesore had become a health hazard.
There may be drainage of malodorous keratinous and purulent debris.
WITH everything to do with politics a malodorous swamp currently, I've taken a firm pledge to avoid it.
"It is very malodorous and the garbage dumped here can become a source of several other diseases as the animals wander here.
The bark is malodorous and all parts of the plant poisonous.