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- adjective Not
fragrant ; having adisagreeable smell .
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Examples
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It was a vile, unfragrant, miserable ordeal throughout which I wore the same pair of unflattering tracksuit pants.
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I spot more pounding the unfragrant, glorious streets of London every day.
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Whether by unfragrant vagrants or happy hookers, being accosted on the sidewalk is one the great pleasures of living in Manhattan, the capital of interactive, spontaneous street theatre.
Sayonara, Sweet Kazuko: Jewelry Designer, Loveable Kook 2007
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Whether by unfragrant vagrants or happy hookers, being accosted on the sidewalk is one the great pleasures of living in Manhattan, the capital of interactive, spontaneous street theatre.
Sayonara, Sweet Kazuko: Jewelry Designer, Loveable Kook 2007
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An unfragrant odour was no objection; the fish was boiled and eaten, and the water drunk as soup.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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We may quarrel about standards of decency; but we agree — I hope that I do not generalize from insufficient data — we agree that persons who have 'lost all sense of decency' are undesirable, unfragrant, and perhaps imbecile and unsafe to be abroad in the community.
Unprintable 1969
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What had that viscous and unfragrant material to do with the present interview?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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The sick only, hapless martyrs unable to leave their cribs, lay passive, if not resigned, and were trampled under foot by their ferocious and unfragrant foes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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Bermuda is a great reservoir of these bulbs, which are sent up, like their unfragrant rivals the onions, by the barrelful.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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We may quarrel about standards of decency; but we agree — I hope that I do not generalize from insufficient data — we agree that persons who have 'lost all sense of decency' are undesirable, unfragrant, and perhaps imbecile and unsafe to be abroad in the community.
Unprintable 1923
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