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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
stink .
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Examples
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And as no good was with them while they lived, so their name stinketh now they are dead: yea, as they wrought mischiefs, and lived like the wild beasts when they enjoyed their abundance; so now the wild beasts of the desert, yea, they of the desert, shall meet with the wild beasts of the island: and the satyr shall cry to his fellows.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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Jack Straw's earlier optimism – or wishful thinking – that the beast would be given a clean death and a Christian burial, does not seen to have been justified, suggesting that there is some residual hope that it can be brought back to life, even though, in biblical terms, its body "stinketh".
A "pause for reflection" Richard 2005
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Well … I tried to put a little air freshener on this manure pile, but it still stinketh.
Think Progress » BREAKING: Former Enron CEO Ken Lay is dead. 2006
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Well†¦ I tried to put a little air freshener on this manure pile, but it still stinketh.
Think Progress » BREAKING: Former Enron CEO Ken Lay is dead. 2006
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Well†¦ I tried to put a little air freshener on this manure pile, but it still stinketh.
Think Progress » BREAKING: Former Enron CEO Ken Lay is dead. 2006
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Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh for he hath been dead four days.
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My sources at CCHQ and the MOD tell me that Liam Fox - who stinketh at nose and tail - was lined up to take the post and complete Brown's musical chairs.
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Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
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Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
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Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
Logophile77 commented on the word stinketh
"Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days."
John 11:39 KJV
May 21, 2018