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单词 stinking
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Definition of stinking in English:

stinking

adjective ˈstɪŋkɪŋˈstɪŋkɪŋ
  • 1Foul-smelling.

    he was locked in a stinking cell
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This blight was caused by a fungus, Phytophthora infestans, and its effect, where it took hold, was to destroy crops almost completely, leaving farmers with nothing but stinking black rotten remains of the tubers.
    • Too often, bus stations are dreadful, offering inefficient dark, dank and stinking shelters to travellers, who are automatically marked down as second class citizens.
    • Thousands of prisoners every morning have to get up and empty the stinking chamber pots which have sat in their cells overnight.
    • The poorest live crowded along stinking open sewers that were once rivers and canals.
    • Slithering slowly out of a stinking sewer, an unexpected guest to the city's streets - a King snake - gave passers-by an all-mighty shock.
    • Like much of the south, much of it patrolled by British troops, the city is marked by grinding poverty, fuel shortages, power cuts and stinking open sewers within yards of housing.
    • He survived two nights in a sweaty, stinking Thai police jail, but the York born market trader has since had to face another ordeal - a barrage of appalling jokes from loyal customers.
    • One of his French prisoners has escaped - and it pitches the unfortunate Jerrold into a pell-mell race across England in a pursuit that takes him from the stinking marshes of Chatham to the wilds of Dartmoor.
    • When one of his staff resigns because she finds the municipal office an uninteresting and boring place, he willingly takes up a project to reclaim a stinking swamp and construct a children's park there.
    • Residents in Ballards Walk and Great Knightleys, Laindon, claimed soft tarmac put down between the bins and the roadway two weeks ago made it difficult for refuse collectors to take away stinking refuse.
    • He never writing a story at all and the Times treating the whole thing like a pile of stinking garbage in which they didn't want to dip their finely manicured hands is just shocking.
    • Nirajan the elephant lumbered down a narrow path leading to the muddy, stinking water of the polluted river, slowly waded across, and made its way to a neighbourhood where the priest was to spend the night.
    • Gripped by hunger, they escape sub zero temperatures by sheltering in stinking sewers.
    • Children working in sweatshops today gain little by being told that in 20 years' time their daughters will not have to stitch garments in a stinking hovel.
    • She is a visionary, driven by a remarkable energy, determined and brave, undeterred by threats and harassment and numerous arrests and uncomfortable nights in stinking police cells.
    • She said: ‘The cemetery has become hemmed in by these piles of stinking manure, and the stench is driving visitors away.’
    • ‘The month of August could see stinking piles of rubbish on Dublin's streets,’ she said yesterday.
    • When the tribes convinced FedEx to deliver 500 pounds of stinking fish to the Interior Department, the Klamath finally got Washington's full attention.
    • It was one of the most miserable conditions that I have ever worked in, the peak of summer, 40 degree Celsius plus temperatures in a stinking room and an average of eleven hours of work, six days a week.
    • Fishermen in remote villages on Spain's craggy northwestern tip, which is not called the Costa de la Muerte for nothing, wept to see their precious shellfish deluged by a filthy, stinking black tide.
    Synonyms
    foul-smelling, evil-smelling, stinking to high heaven, reeking, fetid, malodorous, pungent, acrid, rank, putrid, noxious
    West Indian fresh
    informal smelly, stinky, reeky
    British informal niffing, niffy, pongy, whiffy, humming
    North American informal funky
    literary noisome, mephitic
    rare olid, miasmic, miasmal
    1. 1.1informal Very bad or unpleasant.
      a stinking cold
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Achievement of the day: got up and down a 4000 metre mountain in under fourteen hours, with a stinking cold, and no sleep at the halfway shed due to aching sinuses and the general lack of air.
      • Seasonal etiquette says you start pretty early with champagne - crack open a can of beer at the breakfast table and you look like a stinking drunk, but fire open one of these puppies and it's the height of naughty decadence.
      • She swears up and down she isn't doing it but I still think that's her way of saying, ‘I don't want no stinking pasta.’
      • Daily, we are forced to lie just to get through this stinking, rotten modern world.
      • I'm not fully recovered from the stinking cold.
      • Tonight will be spent having a couple of quiet ones at Le Pub - I've only just got over jetlag so wouldn't want to jeopardise my recovery by turning up to work with a stinking hangover tomorrow.
      • She happily picks up his dry cleaning, disposes of several thousand polystyrene coffee cups polluting his car, and at the end of the working day - instead of clattering off home in a stinking temper - hops into bed with him.
      • I've got a stinking hangover and I'm not in the mood.
      • Now I just wish that all three main parties would stop with the waffle and recrimination and concentrate instead on what has become one huge stinking mess because of total and utter lack of any thought as to what comes after war.
      • Consumerism, hedonism and the worship of money have not only swept through the young generation, but many intellectuals too - they who traditionally despised stinking money.
      • I am in bed with a stinking cold, unable to think.
      • As he has every other week, he mis-enunciated every word Sarah ‘Retardner’ Gardner-style and over-sung every stinking note.
      • There's something about driving a moped during rush hour in the pouring rain, when I'm already suffering from a stinking cold, that I just don't enjoy that much.
      • The only real difference there's been is that instead of spending my day running around doing IT support for rotten stinking students, I get to sit at home all day at the computer typing.
      • Everybody perceives wheelclampers as stinking, rotten people but we do give consideration.
      • Of course, me and my impeccable planning and I get a stinking head cold the same week.
      • It is mere coincidence that David Aaronovitch (that free-thinking independent journalist) used the same stinking ninth category jab in the Observer blog?
      • Despite a stinking cold and hefty jetlag, she's still found the time to arrange her records in order of importance.
      • A severe attack usually coincides with a stinking hangover and can start as early as midday, from whence I will spend the rest of the weekend brooding on the inevitability of Monday morning.
      • The first part of my trip was the train journey from Edinburgh to London with a stinking cold.
      Synonyms
      dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, ghastly, nasty, appalling, vile, very bad
      British informal rotten, shocking
adverbˈstɪŋkɪŋˈstɪŋkɪŋ
informal
  • as submodifier Extremely.

    she is obviously stinking rich
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'll be the kind of guy who is filthy, stinking rich and doesn't care who I step on to get where I'm going.
    • The BCCSL got stinking rich after the 1996 World Cup and have been in a position to net millions of dollars.
    • Jake was absolutely filthy stinking rich, but most of it was in an account for when he was twenty-one.
    • Anyway, the whole thing makes me wonder about religious organisations like Hillsong Church, where they apparently preach the usual self-help dogma about getting stinking rich and so on.
    • That may not seem grand to you but in our country, you have to be stinking rich for a pool in your garden.
    • Whoever owned this house was stinking rich, but it was doubtful that they were more wealthy than the Loires.
    • Especially in Manhattan, such real estate identifies the chef as filthy stinking rich.
    • It's just that once he became so stinking rich he couldn't hope to ever spend it all on himself, he got interested in building a legacy rather than a personal fortune.
    • Culturally, the first thing to know about Bermuda is that it's stinking rich.
    • ‘Apparently she's going to be stinking rich when she's older,’ Mia went on.
    • Do we want a theatre dominated by people lucky enough to have stinking rich parents?
    • His parents bought him this really posh apartment since they are stinking rich.
    • This was a stinking rotten election fought under shameful rules.
    • I'm deeply hurt that he will never enter my life in person again, but I'm so stinking happy that I got to know him.
    • All quibbles about the merits of that series aside, as an English major, it makes me happy when an author of prose fiction becomes stinking bloody rich.
    • It turned out that the doctor was not only rich, but filthy stinking rich.
    • Grumpy, middle-aged restaurant reviewers spending Sunday Times dosh with bad grace, used-up sloaney jet trash, PR moppets on expense accounts and the truly stinking rich, that's who.
    • A close relative of mine was small as a lad, and my bookie grandfather had his whole career marked out - he would be a jockey, and furnish the family with inside information from the stables to make us all stinking rich.
    • From the world of the filthy, stinking rich comes a tale of power, lust, and suspicion.
    • This then hangs on a wall as a demonstration of just how stinking wealthy they really were, and is passed down generations, maybe sold and bought even, thus conveying to future generations just how well the subject did for themselves.
    Synonyms
    very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, especially, tremendously, immensely, vastly, hugely

Derivatives

  • stinkingly

  • adverb
    • And I prefer to drink with them personally at first to make sure they aren't crazy drunks or stinkingly incapable after the first round.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I took the train down from Edinburgh yesterday, and didn't realise until I stepped out of the carriage precisely how stinkingly hot it is at the moment.
      • Sentimental liberal internationalism - everything has to be done through the U.N., no matter how stinkingly corrupt and ineffectual it is - is just as inadequate to the challenges of the age.
      • Having said that though, Nick probably wants someone who's not only based in the USA but also stinkingly cheap.
      • Nevertheless, in the strain and stress of my poverty, I am aware I am stinkingly rich in comparison to most of the people in the world.
 
 

Definition of stinking in US English:

stinking

adjectiveˈstiNGkiNGˈstɪŋkɪŋ
  • 1Foul-smelling.

    he was locked in a stinking cell
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He never writing a story at all and the Times treating the whole thing like a pile of stinking garbage in which they didn't want to dip their finely manicured hands is just shocking.
    • It was one of the most miserable conditions that I have ever worked in, the peak of summer, 40 degree Celsius plus temperatures in a stinking room and an average of eleven hours of work, six days a week.
    • This blight was caused by a fungus, Phytophthora infestans, and its effect, where it took hold, was to destroy crops almost completely, leaving farmers with nothing but stinking black rotten remains of the tubers.
    • When the tribes convinced FedEx to deliver 500 pounds of stinking fish to the Interior Department, the Klamath finally got Washington's full attention.
    • Slithering slowly out of a stinking sewer, an unexpected guest to the city's streets - a King snake - gave passers-by an all-mighty shock.
    • Residents in Ballards Walk and Great Knightleys, Laindon, claimed soft tarmac put down between the bins and the roadway two weeks ago made it difficult for refuse collectors to take away stinking refuse.
    • He survived two nights in a sweaty, stinking Thai police jail, but the York born market trader has since had to face another ordeal - a barrage of appalling jokes from loyal customers.
    • She is a visionary, driven by a remarkable energy, determined and brave, undeterred by threats and harassment and numerous arrests and uncomfortable nights in stinking police cells.
    • Nirajan the elephant lumbered down a narrow path leading to the muddy, stinking water of the polluted river, slowly waded across, and made its way to a neighbourhood where the priest was to spend the night.
    • Fishermen in remote villages on Spain's craggy northwestern tip, which is not called the Costa de la Muerte for nothing, wept to see their precious shellfish deluged by a filthy, stinking black tide.
    • ‘The month of August could see stinking piles of rubbish on Dublin's streets,’ she said yesterday.
    • When one of his staff resigns because she finds the municipal office an uninteresting and boring place, he willingly takes up a project to reclaim a stinking swamp and construct a children's park there.
    • Children working in sweatshops today gain little by being told that in 20 years' time their daughters will not have to stitch garments in a stinking hovel.
    • She said: ‘The cemetery has become hemmed in by these piles of stinking manure, and the stench is driving visitors away.’
    • Gripped by hunger, they escape sub zero temperatures by sheltering in stinking sewers.
    • Too often, bus stations are dreadful, offering inefficient dark, dank and stinking shelters to travellers, who are automatically marked down as second class citizens.
    • Like much of the south, much of it patrolled by British troops, the city is marked by grinding poverty, fuel shortages, power cuts and stinking open sewers within yards of housing.
    • Thousands of prisoners every morning have to get up and empty the stinking chamber pots which have sat in their cells overnight.
    • One of his French prisoners has escaped - and it pitches the unfortunate Jerrold into a pell-mell race across England in a pursuit that takes him from the stinking marshes of Chatham to the wilds of Dartmoor.
    • The poorest live crowded along stinking open sewers that were once rivers and canals.
    Synonyms
    foul-smelling, evil-smelling, stinking to high heaven, reeking, fetid, malodorous, pungent, acrid, rank, putrid, noxious
    1. 1.1informal Very bad or unpleasant.
      a stinking cold
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Seasonal etiquette says you start pretty early with champagne - crack open a can of beer at the breakfast table and you look like a stinking drunk, but fire open one of these puppies and it's the height of naughty decadence.
      • As he has every other week, he mis-enunciated every word Sarah ‘Retardner’ Gardner-style and over-sung every stinking note.
      • A severe attack usually coincides with a stinking hangover and can start as early as midday, from whence I will spend the rest of the weekend brooding on the inevitability of Monday morning.
      • She swears up and down she isn't doing it but I still think that's her way of saying, ‘I don't want no stinking pasta.’
      • I am in bed with a stinking cold, unable to think.
      • Despite a stinking cold and hefty jetlag, she's still found the time to arrange her records in order of importance.
      • I've got a stinking hangover and I'm not in the mood.
      • Daily, we are forced to lie just to get through this stinking, rotten modern world.
      • It is mere coincidence that David Aaronovitch (that free-thinking independent journalist) used the same stinking ninth category jab in the Observer blog?
      • The first part of my trip was the train journey from Edinburgh to London with a stinking cold.
      • Of course, me and my impeccable planning and I get a stinking head cold the same week.
      • There's something about driving a moped during rush hour in the pouring rain, when I'm already suffering from a stinking cold, that I just don't enjoy that much.
      • Everybody perceives wheelclampers as stinking, rotten people but we do give consideration.
      • Tonight will be spent having a couple of quiet ones at Le Pub - I've only just got over jetlag so wouldn't want to jeopardise my recovery by turning up to work with a stinking hangover tomorrow.
      • Achievement of the day: got up and down a 4000 metre mountain in under fourteen hours, with a stinking cold, and no sleep at the halfway shed due to aching sinuses and the general lack of air.
      • She happily picks up his dry cleaning, disposes of several thousand polystyrene coffee cups polluting his car, and at the end of the working day - instead of clattering off home in a stinking temper - hops into bed with him.
      • I'm not fully recovered from the stinking cold.
      • The only real difference there's been is that instead of spending my day running around doing IT support for rotten stinking students, I get to sit at home all day at the computer typing.
      • Consumerism, hedonism and the worship of money have not only swept through the young generation, but many intellectuals too - they who traditionally despised stinking money.
      • Now I just wish that all three main parties would stop with the waffle and recrimination and concentrate instead on what has become one huge stinking mess because of total and utter lack of any thought as to what comes after war.
      Synonyms
      dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, ghastly, nasty, appalling, vile, very bad
adverbˈstiNGkiNGˈstɪŋkɪŋ
informal
  • as submodifier Extremely.

    she is obviously stinking rich
    I want to get stinking drunk and forget
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Jake was absolutely filthy stinking rich, but most of it was in an account for when he was twenty-one.
    • His parents bought him this really posh apartment since they are stinking rich.
    • Especially in Manhattan, such real estate identifies the chef as filthy stinking rich.
    • Culturally, the first thing to know about Bermuda is that it's stinking rich.
    • ‘Apparently she's going to be stinking rich when she's older,’ Mia went on.
    • This was a stinking rotten election fought under shameful rules.
    • This then hangs on a wall as a demonstration of just how stinking wealthy they really were, and is passed down generations, maybe sold and bought even, thus conveying to future generations just how well the subject did for themselves.
    • All quibbles about the merits of that series aside, as an English major, it makes me happy when an author of prose fiction becomes stinking bloody rich.
    • That may not seem grand to you but in our country, you have to be stinking rich for a pool in your garden.
    • I'll be the kind of guy who is filthy, stinking rich and doesn't care who I step on to get where I'm going.
    • Do we want a theatre dominated by people lucky enough to have stinking rich parents?
    • It's just that once he became so stinking rich he couldn't hope to ever spend it all on himself, he got interested in building a legacy rather than a personal fortune.
    • I'm deeply hurt that he will never enter my life in person again, but I'm so stinking happy that I got to know him.
    • Anyway, the whole thing makes me wonder about religious organisations like Hillsong Church, where they apparently preach the usual self-help dogma about getting stinking rich and so on.
    • Grumpy, middle-aged restaurant reviewers spending Sunday Times dosh with bad grace, used-up sloaney jet trash, PR moppets on expense accounts and the truly stinking rich, that's who.
    • It turned out that the doctor was not only rich, but filthy stinking rich.
    • The BCCSL got stinking rich after the 1996 World Cup and have been in a position to net millions of dollars.
    • From the world of the filthy, stinking rich comes a tale of power, lust, and suspicion.
    • Whoever owned this house was stinking rich, but it was doubtful that they were more wealthy than the Loires.
    • A close relative of mine was small as a lad, and my bookie grandfather had his whole career marked out - he would be a jockey, and furnish the family with inside information from the stables to make us all stinking rich.
    Synonyms
    very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, especially, tremendously, immensely, vastly, hugely
 
 
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