Example Sentences

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Maybe one person’s stink is another’s perfume; maybe we’ve gone nose-blind to all fetidness.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

“The fetidness had unleased a plague of bugs — one so biblical that it was unsafe … ‘for a man to open his mouth for fear of having them fly down his throat.’”

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2023

This fetidness of the opossum is not apparent to my sense.

From Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by Burroughs, John

Read as an example of modern fetidness, in the last number of the Vie Parisienne, the article on Marion Delorme.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

There wafts across the fetidness of blood an undefined scent of patchouli.

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Hugo, Victor