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having a bad odor

fetid = having a bad odor

deplorable conditions in a fetid hospital
One wondered about this, as also about the swarms of flies which hung about the scene, literally blackening the air, and the strange, fetid odor which assailed one's nostrils, a ghastly odor, of all the dead things of the universe.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
A cigarette glowed amid the tangle of white hair, and the air of the room was fetid with stale tobacco smoke.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The wind through the open windows had broomed out all the fetid feeling of absence and nothingness.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

fetid = bad smelling

After the fetid, dank stench of the sewers, it was amazing.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment

fetid = bad smelling

fetid = having a bad odor

It was hot in this area of the park, the jungle close and fetid around them.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

fetid = having a bad odor

The flashlight wormed its way into his guts and turned the sweet taste of muscadine into rotten fetid bile.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

fetid = having a bad odor

They were shortish, balding, and had something fetid going on on their upper lips.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky

fetid = with a bad odor

The Vogon began to read—a fetid little passage of his own devising.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

fetid = having a bad odor

War veterans fallen from wheelchairs and into the fetid streets.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

fetid = having a bad odor

Stendahl drank it in, the dreariness, the oppression, the fetid vapors, the whole "atmosphere," so delicately contrived and fitted.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles

fetid = having a bad odor

Smoke belched up in fetid clouds as it roared its outrage.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
The air was fetid and close with the smell of the birth.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
I could feel his hot and fetid breath on my neck; and with a horrid jump—awoke from my nightmare sleep.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
The eyelids, the lips, the nostrils, the flesh of the cheeks, were either gone or reduced to fetid rawness.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
"It is still not too late to abandon this folly," Gerris said, as they made their way down a foetid alley toward the old spice market.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use fetid.)

The fetid stench that had hung over the city for weeks was gone, replaced with brittle, pure air.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
"Good old Kehaar!" said Hazel, gazing with satisfaction round the fetid solitude.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

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