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malodorous

[ mal-oh-der-uhs ]

adjective

  1. having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad:

    a malodorous swamp.



malodorous

/ mælˈəʊdərəs /

adjective

  1. having a bad smell


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Derived Forms

  • malˈodorously, adverb
  • malˈodorousness, noun

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Other Words From

  • mal·odor·ous·ly adverb
  • mal·odor·ous·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of malodorous1

First recorded in 1840–50; mal- + odorous

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Example Sentences

The whistle from the nearby, malodorous paper mill called us to lunch at that same table.

Is there any town nuisance, such as soft coal smoke or malodorous factories?

Possibly confession is to me just what those nights spent on board the yacht, lying in that malodorous harbour, are to you!

Thick, malodorous vapours arose from the squalid streets, lying back on the level, and from the crowded shipping of the port.

It has an attraction for them, often a fatal attraction, even though it be thick with dirt and very malodorous.

Even now she had shuffled back into her kitchen, leaving her ill-humored lodger to puff away at the malodorous weed as he chose.

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