foetid

/ ˈfiː-; ˈfɛtɪd /

adjective

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The high society that could welcome its foetid pages was already ripe for the horrors of the Revolution.

On the fourth he was cast, and the discharge—partly inflammatory exudate, and partly a sanious foetid pus—liberated.

Hence a thoroughly decomposed tuber consists of a cork bag full of starch and foetid liquid.

It would seem almost impossible for the Christian graces to grow in such a foetid atmosphere.

A profuse, clammy, stinking sweat, or a most foetid diarrhoea wasted the miserable patients.

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