Definitions

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  • adjective having an offensive rancid odor

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Examples

  • He spoke a few whispered words, shoving me down the rank-smelling stairwell lit with old iron lanterns.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • He spoke a few whispered words, shoving me down the rank-smelling stairwell lit with old iron lanterns.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • He spoke a few whispered words, shoving me down the rank-smelling stairwell lit with old iron lanterns.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • One housemate drank rank-smelling wheatgrass for her breakfast.

    Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010

  • He might as well have been a rank-smelling animal in an art museum.

    The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010

  • He might as well have been a rank-smelling animal in an art museum.

    The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010

  • 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.

    Cascarones: Egging On Mexican Fiestas 2007

  • 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.

    Cascarones: Egging On Mexican Fiestas 2007

  • The entire plant is underground, except the large but ephemeral, rank-smelling flowers.

    Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests 2008

  • 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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