Definition of stink in English:

stink

verbstank, stunk stɪŋkstɪŋk

[no object]

1Have a strong unpleasant smell.
the place stank like a sewer
his breath stank of drink
Example sentencesExamples
- His head was shaved and his black track suit stank of sweat and cigarette smoke.
- She likes to relate the time a cat had a litter in her clothing, and how horrible her wardrobe stunk afterwards.
- It was jelly-like and it stunk horribly, like butter gone off or old chip pan oil.
- Sometimes you can stink without letting off a smell and people will still keep away.
- The air stank of burned plastic for at least two days after the attack.
- The Ylang Ylang scent, which I feared would stink like rutting pandas, smells like very old people.
- Soldiers said that the city just doesn't stink as it did when they arrived to find sewers backed up all over the place and mounds of rotting garbage.
- The floor stank of sweat and urine, and Rave could hardly breathe.
- We decided to leave and came back in half an hour but the place absolutely stank.
- This room stunk so badly we could not stay in it for very long.
- He smelled of musky cologne and his mouth stank of beer.
- My room stank from the smell of tar today, thanks to the re-paving of the road outside my courtyard.
- To explore the hole you needed a very long ladder and a strong constitution: it stank and was crawling with rats.
- The River Croal was an open sewer and the middens stank all through the year.
- The place stank of sour beer and cigarette smoke.
- It stunk like there was a dead body inside it, and perhaps there was.
- The guy that grabbed me stank of alcohol and started to sway me back and forth.
- His breath stank of alcohol, despite the early hour.
- He was leaning in and his breath stank of alcohol.
- What a sad, sad sight to see him there in his white apron, stinking from the smell of salami.
Synonyms
reek, smell bad, smell disgusting, smell foul, smell to high heaven, stink to high heaven, give off a bad smell
1. 1.1stink somewhere out/upinformal with object Fill somewhere with a strong unpleasant smell.
  her perfume stank the place out
  Example sentencesExamples
  Strongly aromatic foods like the Korean dish kimchi can really stink up a cabin, she says.
  You don't even have to get very close to one of these houses to smell the odor stinking up the whole area up to high heaven.
  Fourthly, rats are smelly animals that stink the room out.
  I couldn't see anything around the back, so I just hoped whatever it was would decompose quickly and stop stinking the place up.
  Besides which, the fish carcases do not stink your dustbin up for days.
  As you can imagine, this process stunk up the place to high heaven.
  You had a fire in your garden that was stinking my house out.
  We think that the fish used to stink the place up were stolen from a refrigerator that Hunter uses for the demonstration ingredients for his show.
  Cats do not harm the structure of the house but boy they can sure stink a place up!
  The RSPCA have done their best for the poor chap, but things just aren't looking too good, and it appears we'll have a dead whale stinking the place up for the New Year.
  Okay, so you could buy a mackerel for a £1 these days but who wants to stink the entire house out for a week?
  Last summer a number of huge flowers stunk up the country.
  Synonyms
  reek, smell bad, smell disgusting, smell foul, smell to high heaven, stink to high heaven, give off a bad smell
2informal Be very unpleasant, contemptible, or scandalous.
he thinks the values of our society stink
Example sentencesExamples
- We got three issues out before we realized we stunk at selling ads and subscriptions.
- ‘I caught the first fifteen minutes of Absolute Power and thought it stunk, but I wouldn't want to clog this thread up with a post about why,’ he said in the Extras thread.
- ‘I'd rather you told me I stunk,’ I said, ‘than tell me I lost the job because of my race.’
- The success of Angela's Ashes spawned a spate of memoirs-by-nobody-in-particular, most of which, frankly, stunk.
- It can also be very revealing if you loved the movie and he thinks it stunk.
- The first half hour, visually ‘influenced’ by Fellowship of the Ring, is so poorly written it stinks like an episode of Hercules with an extra $14 in the budget.
Synonyms
be very unpleasant, be abhorrent, be despicable, be contemptible, be disgusting, be vile, be foul
North American informal suck
1. 2.1stink of Be highly suggestive of (something regarded with disapproval)
  the whole affair stinks of a set-up
  Example sentencesExamples
  But most of all, the whole project simply stank of arrogance.
  The whole thing stank of a setup and police impropriety.
  From what he had gathered from the Marines, however, the whole thing stank of an ambush.
  The whole thing stinks of favoritism, especially as, according to several Borg drones, the Linux angle was already being pursued in-house.
  The whole Diana story stinks of lies and deception.
  The whole thing stinks of desperation - desperation to seem cool, to seem relevant, to be popular.
  Whether it's pitch battles, boardroom corruption, manager's bungs or ticket tout scandals, the whole league stinks of sleaze.
  The whole thing stank of a concerted attempt to ride the wave of bad publicity games were getting in the mainstream press at the time.
  He was the front runner, and the whole affair stank of the worst kind of partisan hackery.
  Granted, nothing I have offered is conclusive, but this whole issue really stinks of fraud.
  Synonyms
  strongly suggest, have all the hallmarks of, smack of, give the impression of
  reek of, smell of
2. 2.2stink of Have or appear to have a scandalously large amount of (something, especially money)
  the whole place was luxurious and stank of money
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘A Day Like Today’ signals the fact his follow up reeks with polish and immaculate production values, stinking of money and thoughtfulness in all the right places.
  The office carried the stink of money and power.
  Back in the eighties when the money was flowing, the place stank of evil and unacceptable moral standards, pretty much like today, except that the economy is in the toilet.
  The room absolutely stank of fear and pain.
  The place still stinks of money - and not just the old double-barrelled wealth traditionally associated with the club.

noun stɪŋkstɪŋk

1A strong unpleasant smell; a stench.
the stink of the place hit me as I went in
Example sentencesExamples
- Once I tried reading the Herald on a car trip to Sydney, but it's a broadsheet and with the newsprint stink, I spewed all over the business pages.
- Interestingly, even though the stink from this particular city stretch is so powerful that strong men quaver, the authorities are apparently contemplating introducing boating in the Canal.
- Unmindful of the rain and the stink, several drove down, specially to catch the sight of rain lashing the lake, and yes, get themselves drenched to the skin.
- The stink in the dining room is as bad as garbage smell.
- He could still smell the stink, but his nose was sort of numb now and he didn't care.
- There's been a stink in my classroom, for a week now, we couldn't figure out where it was coming from, but it smelled like metho.
- There was a slight breeze, and I neatly managed to avoid the worst of the stink.
- ‘But the stink was putrid, the smells were absolutely awful,’ he said.
- I hope nobody ever has to smell the stink that my family and neighbors are experiencing.
- I daren't put clothes in it until I am happy with the smell as I don't want them to absorb the stink.
- It smells terrible, and the stink was getting into my house, my van and other houses nearby.
- The huge mounds of refuse have gone and so has the stink.
- Even if the gas wasn't poisonous, the stink was still unpleasant.
- The stink is loathsome and high where wasted rubbish gets disposed off uncaringly in an open public place.
- At times you can smell the stink, hear the rats running in his shack, and feel the numbing cold.
- I opened a window in an attempt to circulate some air and get the cigarette stink off of Ben and I, and it happened to be making one young thing in the back cold.
- Since the intervention of the special unit, the stink at the school had been slowly dissipating, sources said.
- It's supposed to cover up the stench of stale pee, but the disinfectant stink is almost as bad.
- There was an odd stink, but the house seemed clean.
- In Warheads, while demonstrating irritant-gas, a mercenary trainer tells the film team: ‘The stink is so strong, you'll get a whiff of it too’.
Synonyms
stench, reek, foul smell, bad smell, fetidness, effluvium, malodour, malodorousness, miasma
British informal pong, niff, hum
Scottish informal guff
British rhyming slang pen and ink
North American informal funk
rare fetor, mephitis, noisomeness
2informal A row or fuss.
a silly move now would kick up a stink we couldn't handle
Example sentencesExamples
- He is out of office because he's raising a stink,’ says a Taradale resident.
- If it's nothing special, why are the first-mentioned group of people kicking up such a stink?
- In mid-August, a group of mainland Chinese business executives made such a stink at a Chicago hardware fair that most attendants were left perplexed and appalled.
- Of course, the kid threw up a stink, started yelling and screaming, and its elder sister had to drag it off for a replacement.
- The stink travelled with them, like body odour.
- However an Enniscrone businessman said he was considering withholding payment of his rates in protest at the on-gong stink.
- Disgruntled natives of Boyle are creating a stink over a decision by Beirne's Bins to revise their pricing policy.
- The project's caused quite a stink among victims' rights groups and staunch conservatives.
- They prove their mettle daily, without making such a stink.
- Milltown residents have been creating a stink about raw sewerage that is flowing into a river in the village.
- The Australian Workers Union who represent production line employees of Ion in Adelaide have raised a stink about this arrangement, to no avail.
- If I were on trial and I got even so much as a hint that the judge might be biased against me, I'd certainly raise a stink about it.
- One theory was put my way when the stink over Coke and Pepsi broke out which I present now for your consideration.
- Dragging this old case up will create such a stink, it will pit neighbour against neighbour.
- The sight of the brightly coloured Royal Parade Lilies has caused a real stink among Sinn Fein representatives.
- York council's plan to change the rubbish collection from weekly to fortnightly has caused a right stink, as one whiff of our letters pages confirms.
- Why think when it's so less demanding to simply raise a stink?
- If the council wishes to take action I will be quite pleased because I will really raise a stink about this.
- Residents causing a stink over chemical emissions from a business park - which left them unable to open their windows because of the stench - have persuaded Pendle Council to investigate.
- ‘They can do it but the political stink will be quite intense,’ he said.
Synonyms
fuss, commotion, rumpus, ruckus, trouble, outcry, uproar, brouhaha, furore
informal song and dance, to-do, carry-on, hoo-ha
British informal row, kerfuffle
North American informal foofaraw

adjectivestɪŋk

West Indian

1Having a strong unpleasant smell.
‘What you doing with that stink dog?’
Example sentencesExamples
- Giant oil drum of sludge in a back closet next to the bathroom: someone bumped the lid off this with a bit of equipment and immediately vomited due to the stench that came out from the stink barrel.
- It follows a fleeing him like a stink cloud, misconstruing his running away as an opportunity to take more pictures and ask more questions.
- I'm trying that right now, but I can't have this stink situation put a damper on my session situation.
2Contemptible; corrupt.
the whole episode is so stink that the principal asked for an immediate transfer of the teacher
Example sentencesExamples
- I can't really think of any, and if that's all there are, then, isn't that a stink reason to give your sovereignty away?

Phrases

like stink

informal Extremely hard or intensely.
she's working like stink to get everything ready
Example sentencesExamples
- One thing that really helps my attitude is thinking about setting records when the wind isn't blowing like stink.
- They have ended up separating, hating each other's guts, taking law suits out against each other, and fighting like stink over the property.
- This bike goes like stink and handles like a dream.
- You can do that - but even those people work like stink,’ she says.
- So - while keeping my legs crossed and writing like stink - I have to assume that we sheilas are the new economic magic bullet.

Origin

Old English stincan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German stinken, also to stench.

Old English stincan ‘stink and its close relative stenc ‘smell’ source of stench both go back to a common Germanic root.

Rhymes

bethink, blink, brink, cinque, clink, dink, drink, fink, Frink, gink, ink, interlink, jink, kink, link, mink, pink, plink, prink, rink, shrink, sink, skink, slink, sync, think, wink, zinc

Definition of stink in US English:

stink

verbstɪŋkstiNGk

[no object]

1Have a strong unpleasant smell.
the place stank like a sewer
his breath stank of drink
Example sentencesExamples
- He smelled of musky cologne and his mouth stank of beer.
- His breath stank of alcohol, despite the early hour.
- We decided to leave and came back in half an hour but the place absolutely stank.
- The air stank of burned plastic for at least two days after the attack.
- The Ylang Ylang scent, which I feared would stink like rutting pandas, smells like very old people.
- The floor stank of sweat and urine, and Rave could hardly breathe.
- This room stunk so badly we could not stay in it for very long.
- Sometimes you can stink without letting off a smell and people will still keep away.
- She likes to relate the time a cat had a litter in her clothing, and how horrible her wardrobe stunk afterwards.
- To explore the hole you needed a very long ladder and a strong constitution: it stank and was crawling with rats.
- My room stank from the smell of tar today, thanks to the re-paving of the road outside my courtyard.
- The River Croal was an open sewer and the middens stank all through the year.
- His head was shaved and his black track suit stank of sweat and cigarette smoke.
- What a sad, sad sight to see him there in his white apron, stinking from the smell of salami.
- Soldiers said that the city just doesn't stink as it did when they arrived to find sewers backed up all over the place and mounds of rotting garbage.
- The guy that grabbed me stank of alcohol and started to sway me back and forth.
- He was leaning in and his breath stank of alcohol.
- It stunk like there was a dead body inside it, and perhaps there was.
- The place stank of sour beer and cigarette smoke.
- It was jelly-like and it stunk horribly, like butter gone off or old chip pan oil.
Synonyms
reek, smell bad, smell disgusting, smell foul, smell to high heaven, stink to high heaven, give off a bad smell
1. 1.1stink a place upinformal with object Fill a place with a strong unpleasant smell.
  I hope they are not going to stink up the house with curry
  Example sentencesExamples
  We think that the fish used to stink the place up were stolen from a refrigerator that Hunter uses for the demonstration ingredients for his show.
  Okay, so you could buy a mackerel for a £1 these days but who wants to stink the entire house out for a week?
  Cats do not harm the structure of the house but boy they can sure stink a place up!
  Fourthly, rats are smelly animals that stink the room out.
  You don't even have to get very close to one of these houses to smell the odor stinking up the whole area up to high heaven.
  Last summer a number of huge flowers stunk up the country.
  You had a fire in your garden that was stinking my house out.
  Besides which, the fish carcases do not stink your dustbin up for days.
  The RSPCA have done their best for the poor chap, but things just aren't looking too good, and it appears we'll have a dead whale stinking the place up for the New Year.
  As you can imagine, this process stunk up the place to high heaven.
  I couldn't see anything around the back, so I just hoped whatever it was would decompose quickly and stop stinking the place up.
  Strongly aromatic foods like the Korean dish kimchi can really stink up a cabin, she says.
  Synonyms
  reek, smell bad, smell disgusting, smell foul, smell to high heaven, stink to high heaven, give off a bad smell
2informal Be very unpleasant, contemptible, or scandalous.
the industry's reputation stinks
Example sentencesExamples
- We got three issues out before we realized we stunk at selling ads and subscriptions.
- ‘I caught the first fifteen minutes of Absolute Power and thought it stunk, but I wouldn't want to clog this thread up with a post about why,’ he said in the Extras thread.
- It can also be very revealing if you loved the movie and he thinks it stunk.
- The success of Angela's Ashes spawned a spate of memoirs-by-nobody-in-particular, most of which, frankly, stunk.
- ‘I'd rather you told me I stunk,’ I said, ‘than tell me I lost the job because of my race.’
- The first half hour, visually ‘influenced’ by Fellowship of the Ring, is so poorly written it stinks like an episode of Hercules with an extra $14 in the budget.
Synonyms
be very unpleasant, be abhorrent, be despicable, be contemptible, be disgusting, be vile, be foul
1. 2.1stink of Be highly suggestive of (something regarded with disapproval)
  the whole affair stinks of a setup
  Example sentencesExamples
  But most of all, the whole project simply stank of arrogance.
  The whole thing stinks of favoritism, especially as, according to several Borg drones, the Linux angle was already being pursued in-house.
  The whole thing stank of a setup and police impropriety.
  Granted, nothing I have offered is conclusive, but this whole issue really stinks of fraud.
  He was the front runner, and the whole affair stank of the worst kind of partisan hackery.
  The whole thing stank of a concerted attempt to ride the wave of bad publicity games were getting in the mainstream press at the time.
  The whole thing stinks of desperation - desperation to seem cool, to seem relevant, to be popular.
  The whole Diana story stinks of lies and deception.
  Whether it's pitch battles, boardroom corruption, manager's bungs or ticket tout scandals, the whole league stinks of sleaze.
  From what he had gathered from the Marines, however, the whole thing stank of an ambush.
  Synonyms
  strongly suggest, have all the hallmarks of, smack of, give the impression of
2. 2.2stink of Have or appear to have a scandalously large amount of (something, especially money)
  the whole place was luxurious and stank of money
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘A Day Like Today’ signals the fact his follow up reeks with polish and immaculate production values, stinking of money and thoughtfulness in all the right places.
  Back in the eighties when the money was flowing, the place stank of evil and unacceptable moral standards, pretty much like today, except that the economy is in the toilet.
  The place still stinks of money - and not just the old double-barrelled wealth traditionally associated with the club.
  The office carried the stink of money and power.
  The room absolutely stank of fear and pain.

nounstɪŋkstiNGk

1A strong unpleasant smell; a stench.
the stink of the place hit me as I went in
Example sentencesExamples
- Interestingly, even though the stink from this particular city stretch is so powerful that strong men quaver, the authorities are apparently contemplating introducing boating in the Canal.
- I hope nobody ever has to smell the stink that my family and neighbors are experiencing.
- I opened a window in an attempt to circulate some air and get the cigarette stink off of Ben and I, and it happened to be making one young thing in the back cold.
- There was an odd stink, but the house seemed clean.
- It smells terrible, and the stink was getting into my house, my van and other houses nearby.
- The stink is loathsome and high where wasted rubbish gets disposed off uncaringly in an open public place.
- At times you can smell the stink, hear the rats running in his shack, and feel the numbing cold.
- He could still smell the stink, but his nose was sort of numb now and he didn't care.
- Even if the gas wasn't poisonous, the stink was still unpleasant.
- In Warheads, while demonstrating irritant-gas, a mercenary trainer tells the film team: ‘The stink is so strong, you'll get a whiff of it too’.
- I daren't put clothes in it until I am happy with the smell as I don't want them to absorb the stink.
- Once I tried reading the Herald on a car trip to Sydney, but it's a broadsheet and with the newsprint stink, I spewed all over the business pages.
- ‘But the stink was putrid, the smells were absolutely awful,’ he said.
- The huge mounds of refuse have gone and so has the stink.
- There's been a stink in my classroom, for a week now, we couldn't figure out where it was coming from, but it smelled like metho.
- The stink in the dining room is as bad as garbage smell.
- There was a slight breeze, and I neatly managed to avoid the worst of the stink.
- It's supposed to cover up the stench of stale pee, but the disinfectant stink is almost as bad.
- Since the intervention of the special unit, the stink at the school had been slowly dissipating, sources said.
- Unmindful of the rain and the stink, several drove down, specially to catch the sight of rain lashing the lake, and yes, get themselves drenched to the skin.
Synonyms
stench, reek, foul smell, bad smell, fetidness, effluvium, malodour, malodorousness, miasma
2informal A commotion or fuss.
no matter how nice the restaurant is, wacko Meg has to make a big stink and embarrass the rest of us
Example sentencesExamples
- The Australian Workers Union who represent production line employees of Ion in Adelaide have raised a stink about this arrangement, to no avail.
- If the council wishes to take action I will be quite pleased because I will really raise a stink about this.
- Disgruntled natives of Boyle are creating a stink over a decision by Beirne's Bins to revise their pricing policy.
- However an Enniscrone businessman said he was considering withholding payment of his rates in protest at the on-gong stink.
- The project's caused quite a stink among victims' rights groups and staunch conservatives.
- Milltown residents have been creating a stink about raw sewerage that is flowing into a river in the village.
- If I were on trial and I got even so much as a hint that the judge might be biased against me, I'd certainly raise a stink about it.
- If it's nothing special, why are the first-mentioned group of people kicking up such a stink?
- Dragging this old case up will create such a stink, it will pit neighbour against neighbour.
- The sight of the brightly coloured Royal Parade Lilies has caused a real stink among Sinn Fein representatives.
- Of course, the kid threw up a stink, started yelling and screaming, and its elder sister had to drag it off for a replacement.
- He is out of office because he's raising a stink,’ says a Taradale resident.
- The stink travelled with them, like body odour.
- One theory was put my way when the stink over Coke and Pepsi broke out which I present now for your consideration.
- Why think when it's so less demanding to simply raise a stink?
- In mid-August, a group of mainland Chinese business executives made such a stink at a Chicago hardware fair that most attendants were left perplexed and appalled.
- York council's plan to change the rubbish collection from weekly to fortnightly has caused a right stink, as one whiff of our letters pages confirms.
- They prove their mettle daily, without making such a stink.
- ‘They can do it but the political stink will be quite intense,’ he said.
- Residents causing a stink over chemical emissions from a business park - which left them unable to open their windows because of the stench - have persuaded Pendle Council to investigate.
Synonyms
fuss, commotion, rumpus, ruckus, trouble, outcry, uproar, brouhaha, furore

Phrases

like stink

informal Extremely hard or intensely.
she's working like stink to get everything ready
Example sentencesExamples
- They have ended up separating, hating each other's guts, taking law suits out against each other, and fighting like stink over the property.
- This bike goes like stink and handles like a dream.
- So - while keeping my legs crossed and writing like stink - I have to assume that we sheilas are the new economic magic bullet.
- You can do that - but even those people work like stink,’ she says.
- One thing that really helps my attitude is thinking about setting records when the wind isn't blowing like stink.

Origin

Old English stincan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German stinken, also to stench.

单词	stink
释义	Definition of stink in English: stink verbstank, stunk stɪŋkstɪŋk [no object] 1Have a strong unpleasant smell. the place stank like a sewer his breath stank of drink Example sentencesExamples His head was shaved and his black track suit stank of sweat and cigarette smoke. She likes to relate the time a cat had a litter in her clothing, and how horrible her wardrobe stunk afterwards. It was jelly-like and it stunk horribly, like butter gone off or old chip pan oil. Sometimes you can stink without letting off a smell and people will still keep away. The air stank of burned plastic for at least two days after the attack. The Ylang Ylang scent, which I feared would stink like rutting pandas, smells like very old people. Soldiers said that the city just doesn't stink as it did when they arrived to find sewers backed up all over the place and mounds of rotting garbage. The floor stank of sweat and urine, and Rave could hardly breathe. We decided to leave and came back in half an hour but the place absolutely stank. This room stunk so badly we could not stay in it for very long. He smelled of musky cologne and his mouth stank of beer. My room stank from the smell of tar today, thanks to the re-paving of the road outside my courtyard. To explore the hole you needed a very long ladder and a strong constitution: it stank and was crawling with rats. The River Croal was an open sewer and the middens stank all through the year. The place stank of sour beer and cigarette smoke. It stunk like there was a dead body inside it, and perhaps there was. The guy that grabbed me stank of alcohol and started to sway me back and forth. His breath stank of alcohol, despite the early hour. He was leaning in and his breath stank of alcohol. What a sad, sad sight to see him there in his white apron, stinking from the smell of salami. Synonyms reek, smell bad, smell disgusting, smell foul, smell to high heaven, stink to high heaven, give off a bad smell 1.1stink somewhere out/upinformal with object Fill somewhere with a strong unpleasant smell. her perfume stank the place out Example sentencesExamples Strongly aromatic foods like the Korean dish kimchi can really stink up a cabin, she says. You don't even have to get very close to one of these houses to smell the odor stinking up the whole area up to high heaven. Fourthly, rats are smelly animals that stink the room out. I couldn't see anything around the back, so I just hoped whatever it was would decompose quickly and stop stinking the place up. Besides which, the fish carcases do not stink your dustbin up for days. As you can imagine, this process stunk up the place to high heaven. You had a fire in your garden that was stinking my house out. We think that the fish used to stink the place up were stolen from a refrigerator that Hunter uses for the demonstration ingredients for his show. Cats do not harm the structure of the house but boy they can sure stink a place up! The RSPCA have done their best for the poor chap, but things just aren't looking too good, and it appears we'll have a dead whale stinking the place up for the New Year. Okay, so you could buy a mackerel for a £1 these days but who wants to stink the entire house out for a week? Last summer a number of huge flowers stunk up the country. Synonyms reek, smell bad, smell disgusting, smell foul, smell to high heaven, stink to high heaven, give off a bad smell 2informal Be very unpleasant, contemptible, or scandalous. he thinks the values of our society stink Example sentencesExamples We got three issues out before we realized we stunk at selling ads and subscriptions. ‘I caught the first fifteen minutes of Absolute Power and thought it stunk, but I wouldn't want to clog this thread up with a post about why,’ he said in the Extras thread. ‘I'd rather you told me I stunk,’ I said, ‘than tell me I lost the job because of my race.’ The success of Angela's Ashes spawned a spate of memoirs-by-nobody-in-particular, most of which, frankly, stunk. It can also be very revealing if you loved the movie and he thinks it stunk. The first half hour, visually ‘influenced’ by Fellowship of the Ring, is so poorly written it stinks like an episode of Hercules with an extra $14 in the budget. Synonyms be very unpleasant, be abhorrent, be despicable, be contemptible, be disgusting, be vile, be foul North American informal suck 2.1stink of Be highly suggestive of (something regarded with disapproval) the whole affair stinks of a set-up Example sentencesExamples But most of all, the whole project simply stank of arrogance. The whole thing stank of a setup and police impropriety. From what he had gathered from the Marines, however, the whole thing stank of an ambush. The whole thing stinks of favoritism, especially as, according to several Borg drones, the Linux angle was already being pursued in-house. The whole Diana story stinks of lies and deception. The whole thing stinks of desperation - desperation to seem cool, to seem relevant, to be popular. Whether it's pitch battles, boardroom corruption, manager's bungs or ticket tout scandals, the whole league stinks of sleaze. The whole thing stank of a concerted attempt to ride the wave of bad publicity games were getting in the mainstream press at the time. He was the front runner, and the whole affair stank of the worst kind of partisan hackery. Granted, nothing I have offered is conclusive, but this whole issue really stinks of fraud. Synonyms strongly suggest, have all the hallmarks of, smack of, give the impression of reek of, smell of 2.2stink of Have or appear to have a scandalously large amount of (something, especially money) the whole place was luxurious and stank of money Example sentencesExamples ‘A Day Like Today’ signals the fact his follow up reeks with polish and immaculate production values, stinking of money and thoughtfulness in all the right places. The office carried the stink of money and power. Back in the eighties when the money was flowing, the place stank of evil and unacceptable moral standards, pretty much like today, except that the economy is in the toilet. The room absolutely stank of fear and pain. The place still stinks of money - and not just the old double-barrelled wealth traditionally associated with the club. noun stɪŋkstɪŋk 1A strong unpleasant smell; a stench. the stink of the place hit me as I went in Example sentencesExamples Once I tried reading the Herald on a car trip to Sydney, but it's a broadsheet and with the newsprint stink, I spewed all over the business pages. Interestingly, even though the stink from this particular city stretch is so powerful that strong men quaver, the authorities are apparently contemplating introducing boating in the Canal. Unmindful of the rain and the stink, several drove down, specially to catch the sight of rain lashing the lake, and yes, get themselves drenched to the skin. The stink in the dining room is as bad as garbage smell. He could still smell the stink, but his nose was sort of numb now and he didn't care. There's been a stink in my classroom, for a week now, we couldn't figure out where it was coming from, but it smelled like metho. There was a slight breeze, and I neatly managed to avoid the worst of the stink. ‘But the stink was putrid, the smells were absolutely awful,’ he said. I hope nobody ever has to smell the stink that my family and neighbors are experiencing. I daren't put clothes in it until I am happy with the smell as I don't want them to absorb the stink. It smells terrible, and the stink was getting into my house, my van and other houses nearby. The huge mounds of refuse have gone and so has the stink. Even if the gas wasn't poisonous, the stink was still unpleasant. The stink is loathsome and high where wasted rubbish gets disposed off uncaringly in an open public place. At times you can smell the stink, hear the rats running in his shack, and feel the numbing cold. I opened a window in an attempt to circulate some air and get the cigarette stink off of Ben and I, and it happened to be making one young thing in the back cold. Since the intervention of the special unit, the stink at the school had been slowly dissipating, sources said. It's supposed to cover up the stench of stale pee, but the disinfectant stink is almost as bad. There was an odd stink, but the house seemed clean. In Warheads, while demonstrating irritant-gas, a mercenary trainer tells the film team: ‘The stink is so strong, you'll get a whiff of it too’. Synonyms stench, reek, foul smell, bad smell, fetidness, effluvium, malodour, malodorousness, miasma British informal pong, niff, hum Scottish informal guff British rhyming slang pen and ink North American informal funk rare fetor, mephitis, noisomeness 2informal A row or fuss. a silly move now would kick up a stink we couldn't handle Example sentencesExamples He is out of office because he's raising a stink,’ says a Taradale resident. If it's nothing special, why are the first-mentioned group of people kicking up such a stink? In mid-August, a group of mainland Chinese business executives made such a stink at a Chicago hardware fair that most attendants were left perplexed and appalled. Of course, the kid threw up a stink, started yelling and screaming, and its elder sister had to drag it off for a replacement. The stink travelled with them, like body odour. However an Enniscrone businessman said he was considering withholding payment of his rates in protest at the on-gong stink. Disgruntled natives of Boyle are creating a stink over a decision by Beirne's Bins to revise their pricing policy. The project's caused quite a stink among victims' rights groups and staunch conservatives. They prove their mettle daily, without making such a stink. Milltown residents have been creating a stink about raw sewerage that is flowing into a river in the village. The Australian Workers Union who represent production line employees of Ion in Adelaide have raised a stink about this arrangement, to no avail. If I were on trial and I got even so much as a hint that the judge might be biased against me, I'd certainly raise a stink about it. One theory was put my way when the stink over Coke and Pepsi broke out which I present now for your consideration. Dragging this old case up will create such a stink, it will pit neighbour against neighbour. The sight of the brightly coloured Royal Parade Lilies has caused a real stink among Sinn Fein representatives. York council's plan to change the rubbish collection from weekly to fortnightly has caused a right stink, as one whiff of our letters pages confirms. Why think when it's so less demanding to simply raise a stink? If the council wishes to take action I will be quite pleased because I will really raise a stink about this. Residents causing a stink over chemical emissions from a business park - which left them unable to open their windows because of the stench - have persuaded Pendle Council to investigate. ‘They can do it but the political stink will be quite intense,’ he said. Synonyms fuss, commotion, rumpus, ruckus, trouble, outcry, uproar, brouhaha, furore informal song and dance, to-do, carry-on, hoo-ha British informal row, kerfuffle North American informal foofaraw adjectivestɪŋk West Indian 1Having a strong unpleasant smell. ‘What you doing with that stink dog?’ Example sentencesExamples Giant oil drum of sludge in a back closet next to the bathroom: someone bumped the lid off this with a bit of equipment and immediately vomited due to the stench that came out from the stink barrel. It follows a fleeing him like a stink cloud, misconstruing his running away as an opportunity to take more pictures and ask more questions. I'm trying that right now, but I can't have this stink situation put a damper on my session situation. 2Contemptible; corrupt. the whole episode is so stink that the principal asked for an immediate transfer of the teacher Example sentencesExamples I can't really think of any, and if that's all there are, then, isn't that a stink reason to give your sovereignty away? Phrases like stink informal Extremely hard or intensely. she's working like stink to get everything ready Example sentencesExamples One thing that really helps my attitude is thinking about setting records when the wind isn't blowing like stink. They have ended up separating, hating each other's guts, taking law suits out against each other, and fighting like stink over the property. This bike goes like stink and handles like a dream. You can do that - but even those people work like stink,’ she says. So - while keeping my legs crossed and writing like stink - I have to assume that we sheilas are the new economic magic bullet. Origin Old English stincan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German stinken, also to stench. Old English stincan ‘stink and its close relative stenc ‘smell’ source of stench both go back to a common Germanic root. Rhymes bethink, blink, brink, cinque, clink, dink, drink, fink, Frink, gink, ink, interlink, jink, kink, link, mink, pink, plink, prink, rink, shrink, sink, skink, slink, sync, think, wink, zinc verb.1 phr. Definition of stink in US English: stink verbstɪŋkstiNGk [no object] 1Have a strong unpleasant smell. the place stank like a sewer his breath stank of drink Example sentencesExamples He smelled of musky cologne and his mouth stank of beer. His breath stank of alcohol, despite the early hour. We decided to leave and came back in half an hour but the place absolutely stank. The air stank of burned plastic for at least two days after the attack. The Ylang Ylang scent, which I feared would stink like rutting pandas, smells like very old people. The floor stank of sweat and urine, and Rave could hardly breathe. This room stunk so badly we could not stay in it for very long. Sometimes you can stink without letting off a smell and people will still keep away. She likes to relate the time a cat had a litter in her clothing, and how horrible her wardrobe stunk afterwards. To explore the hole you needed a very long ladder and a strong constitution: it stank and was crawling with rats. My room stank from the smell of tar today, thanks to the re-paving of the road outside my courtyard. The River Croal was an open sewer and the middens stank all through the year. His head was shaved and his black track suit stank of sweat and cigarette smoke. What a sad, sad sight to see him there in his white apron, stinking from the smell of salami. Soldiers said that the city just doesn't stink as it did when they arrived to find sewers backed up all over the place and mounds of rotting garbage. The guy that grabbed me stank of alcohol and started to sway me back and forth. He was leaning in and his breath stank of alcohol. It stunk like there was a dead body inside it, and perhaps there was. The place stank of sour beer and cigarette smoke. It was jelly-like and it stunk horribly, like butter gone off or old chip pan oil. Synonyms reek, smell bad, smell disgusting, smell foul, smell to high heaven, stink to high heaven, give off a bad smell 1.1stink a place upinformal with object Fill a place with a strong unpleasant smell. I hope they are not going to stink up the house with curry Example sentencesExamples We think that the fish used to stink the place up were stolen from a refrigerator that Hunter uses for the demonstration ingredients for his show. Okay, so you could buy a mackerel for a £1 these days but who wants to stink the entire house out for a week? Cats do not harm the structure of the house but boy they can sure stink a place up! Fourthly, rats are smelly animals that stink the room out. You don't even have to get very close to one of these houses to smell the odor stinking up the whole area up to high heaven. Last summer a number of huge flowers stunk up the country. You had a fire in your garden that was stinking my house out. Besides which, the fish carcases do not stink your dustbin up for days. The RSPCA have done their best for the poor chap, but things just aren't looking too good, and it appears we'll have a dead whale stinking the place up for the New Year. As you can imagine, this process stunk up the place to high heaven. I couldn't see anything around the back, so I just hoped whatever it was would decompose quickly and stop stinking the place up. Strongly aromatic foods like the Korean dish kimchi can really stink up a cabin, she says. Synonyms reek, smell bad, smell disgusting, smell foul, smell to high heaven, stink to high heaven, give off a bad smell 2informal Be very unpleasant, contemptible, or scandalous. the industry's reputation stinks Example sentencesExamples We got three issues out before we realized we stunk at selling ads and subscriptions. ‘I caught the first fifteen minutes of Absolute Power and thought it stunk, but I wouldn't want to clog this thread up with a post about why,’ he said in the Extras thread. It can also be very revealing if you loved the movie and he thinks it stunk. The success of Angela's Ashes spawned a spate of memoirs-by-nobody-in-particular, most of which, frankly, stunk. ‘I'd rather you told me I stunk,’ I said, ‘than tell me I lost the job because of my race.’ The first half hour, visually ‘influenced’ by Fellowship of the Ring, is so poorly written it stinks like an episode of Hercules with an extra $14 in the budget. Synonyms be very unpleasant, be abhorrent, be despicable, be contemptible, be disgusting, be vile, be foul 2.1stink of Be highly suggestive of (something regarded with disapproval) the whole affair stinks of a setup Example sentencesExamples But most of all, the whole project simply stank of arrogance. The whole thing stinks of favoritism, especially as, according to several Borg drones, the Linux angle was already being pursued in-house. The whole thing stank of a setup and police impropriety. Granted, nothing I have offered is conclusive, but this whole issue really stinks of fraud. He was the front runner, and the whole affair stank of the worst kind of partisan hackery. The whole thing stank of a concerted attempt to ride the wave of bad publicity games were getting in the mainstream press at the time. The whole thing stinks of desperation - desperation to seem cool, to seem relevant, to be popular. The whole Diana story stinks of lies and deception. Whether it's pitch battles, boardroom corruption, manager's bungs or ticket tout scandals, the whole league stinks of sleaze. From what he had gathered from the Marines, however, the whole thing stank of an ambush. Synonyms strongly suggest, have all the hallmarks of, smack of, give the impression of 2.2stink of Have or appear to have a scandalously large amount of (something, especially money) the whole place was luxurious and stank of money Example sentencesExamples ‘A Day Like Today’ signals the fact his follow up reeks with polish and immaculate production values, stinking of money and thoughtfulness in all the right places. Back in the eighties when the money was flowing, the place stank of evil and unacceptable moral standards, pretty much like today, except that the economy is in the toilet. The place still stinks of money - and not just the old double-barrelled wealth traditionally associated with the club. The office carried the stink of money and power. The room absolutely stank of fear and pain. nounstɪŋkstiNGk 1A strong unpleasant smell; a stench. the stink of the place hit me as I went in Example sentencesExamples Interestingly, even though the stink from this particular city stretch is so powerful that strong men quaver, the authorities are apparently contemplating introducing boating in the Canal. I hope nobody ever has to smell the stink that my family and neighbors are experiencing. I opened a window in an attempt to circulate some air and get the cigarette stink off of Ben and I, and it happened to be making one young thing in the back cold. There was an odd stink, but the house seemed clean. It smells terrible, and the stink was getting into my house, my van and other houses nearby. The stink is loathsome and high where wasted rubbish gets disposed off uncaringly in an open public place. At times you can smell the stink, hear the rats running in his shack, and feel the numbing cold. He could still smell the stink, but his nose was sort of numb now and he didn't care. Even if the gas wasn't poisonous, the stink was still unpleasant. In Warheads, while demonstrating irritant-gas, a mercenary trainer tells the film team: ‘The stink is so strong, you'll get a whiff of it too’. I daren't put clothes in it until I am happy with the smell as I don't want them to absorb the stink. Once I tried reading the Herald on a car trip to Sydney, but it's a broadsheet and with the newsprint stink, I spewed all over the business pages. ‘But the stink was putrid, the smells were absolutely awful,’ he said. The huge mounds of refuse have gone and so has the stink. There's been a stink in my classroom, for a week now, we couldn't figure out where it was coming from, but it smelled like metho. The stink in the dining room is as bad as garbage smell. There was a slight breeze, and I neatly managed to avoid the worst of the stink. It's supposed to cover up the stench of stale pee, but the disinfectant stink is almost as bad. Since the intervention of the special unit, the stink at the school had been slowly dissipating, sources said. Unmindful of the rain and the stink, several drove down, specially to catch the sight of rain lashing the lake, and yes, get themselves drenched to the skin. Synonyms stench, reek, foul smell, bad smell, fetidness, effluvium, malodour, malodorousness, miasma 2informal A commotion or fuss. no matter how nice the restaurant is, wacko Meg has to make a big stink and embarrass the rest of us Example sentencesExamples The Australian Workers Union who represent production line employees of Ion in Adelaide have raised a stink about this arrangement, to no avail. If the council wishes to take action I will be quite pleased because I will really raise a stink about this. Disgruntled natives of Boyle are creating a stink over a decision by Beirne's Bins to revise their pricing policy. However an Enniscrone businessman said he was considering withholding payment of his rates in protest at the on-gong stink. The project's caused quite a stink among victims' rights groups and staunch conservatives. Milltown residents have been creating a stink about raw sewerage that is flowing into a river in the village. If I were on trial and I got even so much as a hint that the judge might be biased against me, I'd certainly raise a stink about it. If it's nothing special, why are the first-mentioned group of people kicking up such a stink? Dragging this old case up will create such a stink, it will pit neighbour against neighbour. The sight of the brightly coloured Royal Parade Lilies has caused a real stink among Sinn Fein representatives. Of course, the kid threw up a stink, started yelling and screaming, and its elder sister had to drag it off for a replacement. He is out of office because he's raising a stink,’ says a Taradale resident. The stink travelled with them, like body odour. One theory was put my way when the stink over Coke and Pepsi broke out which I present now for your consideration. Why think when it's so less demanding to simply raise a stink? In mid-August, a group of mainland Chinese business executives made such a stink at a Chicago hardware fair that most attendants were left perplexed and appalled. York council's plan to change the rubbish collection from weekly to fortnightly has caused a right stink, as one whiff of our letters pages confirms. They prove their mettle daily, without making such a stink. ‘They can do it but the political stink will be quite intense,’ he said. Residents causing a stink over chemical emissions from a business park - which left them unable to open their windows because of the stench - have persuaded Pendle Council to investigate. Synonyms fuss, commotion, rumpus, ruckus, trouble, outcry, uproar, brouhaha, furore Phrases like stink informal Extremely hard or intensely. she's working like stink to get everything ready Example sentencesExamples They have ended up separating, hating each other's guts, taking law suits out against each other, and fighting like stink over the property. This bike goes like stink and handles like a dream. So - while keeping my legs crossed and writing like stink - I have to assume that we sheilas are the new economic magic bullet. You can do that - but even those people work like stink,’ she says. One thing that really helps my attitude is thinking about setting records when the wind isn't blowing like stink. Origin Old English stincan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German stinken, also to stench. verb.1 phr.
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