Both Uses of
fetid
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
- 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.†
Chpt 2 *fetid = bad smelling
- The air was fetid with their breath, yet in spite of this some of them smelled Jurgis and called down the torments of hell upon him, while he lay in a far corner of his cell, counting the throbbings of the blood in his forehead.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
having a bad odor