Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a bad odor; foul.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a bad or offensive odor, either literally or figuratively: as, a malodorous reputation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a bad
odor - adjective figuratively Highly
improper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an unpleasant smell
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Examples
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** After digestion, the Komodo dragon regurgitates a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus.
Nature Is Awesome: The Komodo Dragon Tyler 2009
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** After digestion, the Komodo dragon regurgitates a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus.
Archive 2009-08-02 Tyler 2009
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Abimelech is a name malodorous in Bible history, and yet full of profitable suggestion.
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The greatest piece of good luck that can befall a Continental village is the discovery, within its limits, of a spring supplying some kind of malodorous water.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 1884
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DETAINING the next president of the United States for three hours in what an eyewitness called a "malodorous" small room at an airport in the provincial Russian city of Perm looks, in retrospect, to have been a pretty bad idea.
Robert Amsterdam 2009
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DETAINING the next president of the United States for three hours in what an eyewitness called a "malodorous" small room at an airport in the provincial Russian city of Perm looks, in retrospect, to have been a pretty bad idea.
Robert Amsterdam 2009
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A coarse country filled with malodorous women that sang from the shores.
sirens Jerry Ratch 2011
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The story starts with the discovery of the body of an elderly man in a malodorous basement.
Film Maxine 2009
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A savory, warming bowlful proves the sumptuous ends justify the malodorous means.
No Need to Gripe About Tripe Charlotte Druckman 2011
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Michael Behe wrote A malodorous argument for Darwinian evolution.
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