- a variation of fetid.
foetid
Britishadjective
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Hardscrabble Mumbaikars have little energy to spare lamenting lost glories; most are more concerned with the desperate need for housing, collapsing railway overpasses and foetid monsoon floods.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2019
While the horror of the trenches has been well documented, what happened beneath the battlefields - in the foetid, dark, cramped, and frequently wet tunnels - is less well known, and arguably far more frightening.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2016
For decades, disembarking at New Street railway station could be likened to stepping into a dimly-lit concrete box filled with foetid air.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2015
Perhaps we can't understand it unless we can feel it: the foetid atmosphere of Henry's court, seething with malice, suspicion, fear.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
“It is still not too late to abandon this folly,” Gerris said, as they made their way down a foetid alley toward the old spice market.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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