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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a noticeable, usually unpleasant or offensive odor.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having an odor, especially an offensive one.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a bad smell.
  • adjective figuratively having a quality that arouses suspicion.
  • adjective figuratively, computing, slang Of inferior quality.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective offensively malodorous

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