fetid
adjective
having an offensive odor; stinking.
fetidness
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a word derived from
fetid.
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
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 Victor Hugo
This fetidness of the opossum is not apparent to my sense.
From Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by John Burroughs
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 Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
