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putrid
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Brave New World
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- Nothing to do, and the hotel too hopelessly old-fashioned—no television laid on in the bedrooms, no scent organ, only the most putrid synthetic music, and not more than twenty-five Escalator-Squash Courts for over two hundred guests.†
p. 87.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(putrid) rotting (an advanced state of decomposition) with a foul odor; or anything that is disgusting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)