Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an offensive rancid odor
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Examples
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He spoke a few whispered words, shoving me down the rank-smelling stairwell lit with old iron lanterns.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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He spoke a few whispered words, shoving me down the rank-smelling stairwell lit with old iron lanterns.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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He spoke a few whispered words, shoving me down the rank-smelling stairwell lit with old iron lanterns.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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One housemate drank rank-smelling wheatgrass for her breakfast.
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He might as well have been a rank-smelling animal in an art museum.
The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010
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He might as well have been a rank-smelling animal in an art museum.
The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010
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Early variations, connected with the customarily riotous pre-Lenten celebrations, were filled with either perfumed or rank-smelling colored water and sealed with a plug of wax.
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Early variations, connected with the customarily riotous pre-Lenten celebrations, were filled with either perfumed or rank-smelling colored water and sealed with a plug of wax.
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The entire plant is underground, except the large but ephemeral, rank-smelling flowers.
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Shaking, he clambered off the wagon as their relief walked up rank-smelling and yawning and belching to take their place.
Spirit Gate 2006
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