stinky
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having a foul or offensive odor: Describes something that emits an unpleasant smell.
- Very bad, unpleasant, or contemptible: Used informally to describe something of very poor quality or someone who is disagreeable.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (Bad Smell):
- Take out the stinky garbage.
- He took off his stinky socks after the long hike.
- Adjective (Very Bad/Unpleasant):
- That was a stinky thing to say to your friend.
- The team is in a stinky situation after losing three key players.
Advanced Usage
- "stinky with [something]": Used informally to emphasize a strong, often negative, association.
- The deal was stinky with corruption from the start.
- As a playful or childish insult.
- You're a stinky head!
Variants and Related Words
- Stink (verb/noun): To emit a strong, unpleasant smell; or the smell itself.
- That fish will stink up the whole kitchen.
- What is that awful stink?
- Stinking (adjective/adverb): Similar to "stinky," but can also be used as an intensifier (informal).
- A stinking pile of rubbish.
- It's stinking hot outside.
Synonyms
- Malodorous, foul-smelling, reeking: For the sense of bad smell.
- Lousy, rotten, awful, terrible: For the sense of being very bad.
Related Phrases
- Raise a stink: To complain loudly or cause a fuss about something.
- The customers raised a stink about the price increase.
- Stink to high heaven: To smell extremely bad; or, figuratively, to be very corrupt or suspicious.
- This milk stinks to high heaven.
- Their financial dealings stink to high heaven.
Related Idioms
- Like stink: (British English, informal) Used as an intensifier, meaning very much, very hard, or very fast.
- He ran like stink to catch the bus.
Adjective
- very bad
- a lousy play
- it's a stinking world
- having an unpleasant smell