foetor

Nope, this is a day you wish he'd written a long, whiny letter to his aunts about those bastard Syrians next door, or maybe just spent the day inventing new spellings for "foetor" or patronizingly explaining Nietzsche to Frank Belknap Long.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Of greatest concern to me was a certain unmistakable foetor—that same dusty, sepulchral stench from my dream!

Abomination at the Shilkie Andrew Edwards 2011

That is before we even begin to contemplate how we might view the character of this individual, who permanently carries with him the foetor of the dung heap.

Mendacious Mandy: Take Everything With A Pinch Of Salt 2008

That is before we even begin to contemplate how we might view the character of this individual, who permanently carries with him the foetor of the dung heap.

Archive 2008-10-26 2008

Anyone can imitate him, in mediocre fashion, by tossing around words like "glabrous" and "foetor."

Boing Boing 2007

Exitque de illo per totum ignis obscuratus fumo, et foetor, tantus, quòd per magnum spatium viæ pessimam vallem infectat.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Exitque de illo per totum ignis obscuratus fumo, et foetor, tantus, qu騞 per magnum spatium vi� pessimam vallem infectat.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Contributing to this foetor was the smell emanating from the table, whose surface was littered with the vestiges of various meals—the decaying fragments of a catfish; the partially gnawed disjecta membra of a chicken; a beef bone to which waxy gobbets of congealed fat continued to cling.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

As they approached, cautious, ready for anything, Joanna was conscious of the nauseating foetor of decay that hung in the raw air.

The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

The foetor of decay hung over the town, clogging her throat like putrid dust.

The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988