Definitions
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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Examples
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If that means queueing with the chavs in smelly convenience stores they can get stuffed.
Lottery to become Compulsory Dungeekin 2009
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Hmm, it's growing on us … Kelly's smelly is described as "sexy, fruity and enticing" and costs £17.95 for 25ml.
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But we know better: worse than leaving work in smelly clothes is the full shift spent working in the presence of a carcinogenic environmental constant.
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The collar has a dozen cartridges, each containing a wick soaked in smelly liquid, a valve and a small propeller fan.
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Plus, the circle line around the word smelly blog gives a hint about fragrance particles encircling the name...very well put together.
SmellyBlog Logo No. 3 Ayala Sender 2007
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VELSHI: Well, a small business owner in Phoenix has come up with what you could call a smelly way of beating the high price of gas.
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If you've been called smelly by a skunk, you know you stink.
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I can see the great talents of so-called smelly cousin.
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: My poor state Kate 2008
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So as adoring aunts we're going to call her smelly Nelly.
moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2003
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Fortunately for her, there lay, just off and behind the kitchen, a roomy scullery, where most of the dirty, and what may be called the smelly, work connected with cooking was done.
Good Old Anna Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
zc0000 commented on the word smelly
That's a simple example, but it demonstrates how the table-per-class pattern can lead to a somewhat smelly domain.
May 8, 2010