1(of organic matter) decaying or rotting and emitting a fetid smell.

1. 1.1 Of or characteristic of rotting matter.
   the putrid smells from the slaughterhouses

   Example sentencesExamples

   • ‘She doesn't want to eat with putrid garbage,’ Vincent put in.
   • Consumers pay for poultry based on weight - including the putrid water added to it.
   • You cannot leave such putrid garbage for two weeks.
   • She shivered as their chilled breath filled the air, suffocating her with its putrid weight.
   • She ignored my first comment, but to the second, she chirped, ‘No, you smell like putrid tuna.’
   • The air smelt putrid with the stench of rotting flesh.
   • That sick sense of something putrid and vile grew stronger and stronger as Bahzell concentrated upon it.
   • Immediately, Felix's hand flew to his nose before the putrid, repulsive stench could.
   • Now, when the lights went on, she had ten seconds to be in the other room before the putrid gas was released.
   • The dog growled again, its breath hot and putrid.
   • They stepped into the tunnels of the sewers, in the ankle-deep, putrid water.
   • The combination of sewage and oil has resulted in a putrid smell spreading over a wide area.
   • As I breathed in the putrid air, a metallic taste formed at the back of my throat, making my stomach more than a little queasy.
   • You don't want us to pace endlessly up and down the hallway, drinking putrid coffee in paper cups and looking forlorn?
   • Her huge lips smacked together with each chew of gum that gave off a putrid, sickening watermelon stench.
   • The sin sheep eat the soul grass, and the souls work off bad karma in the sheep's unspeakably putrid intestinal track.
   • Pointing to the blasted house and putrid water in the street, she exclaimed: ‘We have been pushed back to the age of boiling water.’
   • In fact the smell of the putrid dust was nonexistent.
   • You are stuck here sharing in the hopelessness and breathing the putrid air for the next seven days.
   • They're trapped, on boats, roofs, porches, surrounded by black and putrid water.
2. 1.2informal Very unpleasant; repulsive.
   the cocktail is a putrid pink color

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Given the putrid offensive production it's frankly amazing that the Twins have been able to remain in contention.
   • By winter, the colour would all be gone, replaced by black bark and the putrid brown of decay set against grey sky and grey water.
   • The creature came right up to us, until we could smell its putrid breath and hear it's snapping jaws.
   • The actors in the commercial convincingly bulge out their cheeks to convey that they are full of putrid vomit.
   • She was just metres from being swallowed by the putrid, disgusting gunk of grief.
   • She covered her face, coughing until she could taste yesterday's putrid cocktail on her tongue.
   • This is when the ugly head of terrorism, spawned from the putrid heap of human rejects, knocks on the doors of civilized people.
   • By midnight, save for the few who'd donned old sneakers and jeans, gay summer colors had become a uniformed dull, putrid, brown.
   • It tasted like the smell of a belch, and had the colour of putrid dishwater.
   • The young messenger whirled to face him and smelled his warm, putrid breath.
   • I was glad I wasn't on her side, because I could smell his putrid breath even from several feet away.
   • The paint had almost completely rusted off and the few remaining patches of color were a putrid shade of green.
   • I was surrounded by a disgusting and putrid evil wanting nothing more than to humiliate and destroy me.
   • Even the air seemed to hang with the putrid color.
   • The Texans have been equally putrid offensively.
   • The exposed skin where his delicate patch usually lay was a vile, putrid yellow.
   • Well folks, that go-along attitude and curiosity have together congealed into a large putrid mass of disgust.
   • The putrid green color coats the inside of his lids.
   • The filial photo, on the other hand, is an acid nightmare of lime green and putrid pink.
   • These are symptoms of a disease, the ugly, putrid sores of a deeper illness.

   Synonyms

   revolting, disgusting, abhorrent, repellent, repugnant, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, uninviting, displeasing