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Examples
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His arms and the front of his shirt were covered in black blood, slick and vile-smelling.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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Clothahump measured the paste into the crucible, added a vile-smelling liquid from a tall, waspish black bottle, then a pinch of something puce from a drawer near his right arm.
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Yes, fermenting bacteria do create reactions that end in the production of extremely vile-smelling gases, mostly from volatile sulfur compounds.
Lactose Intolerance Doesn't Cause Bad Breath Steve Carper 2008
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His arms and the front of his shirt were covered in black blood, slick and vile-smelling.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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His arms and the front of his shirt were covered in black blood, slick and vile-smelling.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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One evening, his golden retriever came in from the back yard and proudly dropped a vile-smelling “dead” opossum at his feet.
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You had to wipe some vile-smelling chemical goop across the image using a little plastic-sponge thingee, or it would fade away.
Hai! Karate! Steve Perry 2007
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This is a vile-smelling, alcohol-based, Coca-Cola-colored concoction with bits of grit floating in it.
Rub It In Steve Perry 2007
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That was true enough; the people who were not afraid of Claire Fraser personally were generally terrified of the contents of her surgery, these featuring fearsomely painful-looking implements, mysterious murky brews, and vile-smelling medicines.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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By the time Lucinda returned, Eleanor and Dr. Granger had cooked up a dark, vile-smelling brew that resembled the worst medicine Eleanor had ever seen.
The Quilter's Legacy Jennifer Chiaverini 2003
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