Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ill-smelling; malodorous.
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Examples
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To the damp funeral smell of the flowers at the altar, there has been added the cacodorous scents of forty or fifty different brands of talcum and rice powder.
A Book of Burlesques 1918
qms commented on the word cacodorous
Despite our indignant chorus
Polluters still mock or ignore us
And now heaps of swill
On Capitol Hill
Grow fouler and more cacodorous.
August 24, 2018