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[ sting-king ] / ˈstɪŋ kɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR stinking ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivethat smells foul; foul-smelling. Slang. very drunk; plastered. Slang. very rich: His father left him so much money he's stinking. contemptible; disgusting: a stinking shame. adverbcompletely or extremely: stinking drunk. Origin of stinkingbefore 1000; Middle English stinkinge,Old English stincende.See stink, -ing2 SYNONYMS FOR stinking1 smelly, putrid, rotten, putrescent, foul, miasmal, rank. SEE SYNONYMS FOR stinking ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM stinkingstink·ing·ly, adverbstink·ing·ness, nounWords nearby stinkingstinkball, stink bomb, stink bug, stinker, stinkhorn, stinking, stinking ash, stinking badger, stinking cedar, stinking chamomile, stinking iris Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for stinkingAnd “stinking rich” is the smell of zero carbon emissions at eco-friendly tech company campuses. Up To a Point: Robber Barons Make Way For Robber Nerds|P. J. O’Rourke|August 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.” Inside the Gaza Schoolyard Massacre|Jesse Rosenfeld|July 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the language about public schools and cricket bewildered audiences and Frank Rich gave it a stinking review. Bring ‘Another Country’ to Broadway: Why a Hit British Classic Needs Its New York Moment|Tom Teodorczuk|June 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST She goes on to dismiss “stinking romanticism” as sick, akin to “boils & blisters & warts.” Flannery O’Connor’s Desire for God|Jen Vafidis|November 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And Alfonso goes, "Badges, we don't need no stinking badges" and starts shooting at them. Mel Brooks’s 11 Favorite Movie Scenes: ‘Psycho’ to ‘Some Like It Hot’|Mel Brooks|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST Their memories harbour them like a stinking suit of old clothes. The Tree of Heaven|May Sinclair For the men of the crew, it was all in the day's work; stinking, sweating, perilous toil. The Sea Bride|Ben Ames Williams Now, no doctor, I take it, likes to have his potions called "stinking stuff." Left on Labrador|Charles Asbury Stephens Old Stubbs calls the May-pole a "stinking idol," and says it was brought home with "great veneration," hence his malediction. Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore|Charles Hardwick A few days later, when Juan and his mother are eating their breakfast, Juan smells a stinking odor. Filipino Popular Tales|Dean S. Fansler
British Dictionary definitions for stinking
adjectivehaving a foul smell informal unpleasant or disgusting (postpositive) slang very drunk adverbinformal (intensifier, expressing contempt for the person referred to)stinking rich Derived forms of stinkingstinkingly, adverbstinkingness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to stinkingputrid, funky, fetid, foul, rank, reeking, malodorous, mephitic, noisome, offensive, rancid |