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
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
His instinct perceived the fetidness of poverty, but no longer ferreted out the deeper evils in pride and sensuality.
From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
No. 3 is particularly useful to correct the fetidness of the discharge.
From The Dog by William Youatt
