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
Vile is a synonym for stinking in rotten topic. In some cases you can use "Vile" instead an adjective "Stinking", when it comes to topics like dreadful.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The Fleet used to be a dreadful open sewer, full of a stinking slurry of the most vile rubbish imaginable; any similarity to real persons living or dead is, of course, strictly unintentional.
Source: Useful Notes / London - Pure, sick, disgusting, revolting, stinking, vile dumb luck getting through there in good shape.
Source: Nintendo Hard / Beat'em Ups
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