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having a bad odor- a fetid stench coming from the garbage pile
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
- After the fetid, dank stench of the sewers, it was amazing.James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
- some fetid guinea pigs and rabbitsMark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- It was hot in this area of the park, the jungle close and fetid around them.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- The flashlight wormed its way into his guts and turned the sweet taste of muscadine into rotten fetid bile.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- They were shortish, balding, and had something fetid going on on their upper lips.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- The Vogon began to read—a fetid little passage of his own devising.Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- War veterans fallen from wheelchairs and into the fetid streets.Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
- Stendahl drank it in, the dreariness, the oppression, the fetid vapors, the whole "atmosphere," so delicately contrived and fitted.Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
- 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
- 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
fetid = bad smelling
fetid = bad smelling
fetid = having a bad odor
fetid = having a bad odor
fetid = having a bad odor
fetid = with a bad odor
fetid = having a bad odor
fetid = having a bad odor
fetid = having a bad odor
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use fetid.)