Rotten
Stinking
Stinking adjective - Having an unpleasant smell.
Usage example: came home from their trip to find stinking garbage that had been left in the kitchen
Rotten is a synonym for stinking (British) in bad topic. You can use "Rotten" instead an adjective "Stinking", if it concerns topics such as shitty. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In the Tortall Universe, this is the entire purpose of metal-winged immortals called Stormwings: they defecate on and claw battlefield corpses to pieces to leave a stinking, rotten mess.
Source: Desecrating the Dead -
M*A*S*H: Attempted by one Corporal Max "I-want-outta-this-rotten-stinking-Army" Klinger after being told by Major Winchester that he'd just recently read about a man discharged from the Army for fainting.
Source: Fainting -
Freddy: That lousy, stinking, lying, cheating, totally dishonest, dirty, rotten-
Source: Out-Gambitted aka: Out Gambit
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