Definition of foul-smelling in US English:
foul-smelling
adjectiveˌfoulˈsmeliNGˌfaʊlˈsmɛlɪŋ
Having an extremely unpleasant smell.
Example sentencesExamples
- Two feet down in the dirty, foul-smelling water were valves essential to the pumping operation that had to be opened.
- A select group of chemists, however, rarely handle flasks of foul-smelling fluids.
- The boats are launched after being towed by ancient and foul-smelling tractors.
- He lay on a filthy, stained bed in a foul-smelling ward.
- A troop of foul-smelling marine iguanas warm themselves in the sun in the Galapagos Islands.
- Fox was alongside of us, brewing up a foul-smelling soup to help replenish Zertik's health.
- Research shows 90 percent of bad breath comes from foul-smelling gases produced by bacteria on the surface of the tongue.
- They help their overworked, underpaid teacher haul water from a well down the road, not far from a foul-smelling outhouse.
- Throughout the region, pristine beaches, bustling towns and breathtaking blue waters were turned into brown, foul-smelling, debris-strewn places of death.
- Environmental health officers have launched an investigation after a shopper bought "foul-smelling" chickens from a York store.