malodor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of malodor
Example Sentences
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“The malodor is a potent behavioral message to keep our hands away from our face, which is something we should be doing anyway,” Pamela Dalton of Monell Chemical Senses Center said in the Wirecutter report.
From Fox News ● Jul. 15, 2020
People who can’t contain themselves bear only some of the blame for the malodor, experts say: trash, sewage and other sources are generally greater contributors to the stench.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016
Somehow the prospect of the corpse plant’s malodor is part of its appeal.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 21, 2012
Range Resources says that the D.E.P. visited the area on 24 separate occasions and found no malodor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2011
Meanwhile, the hyena-like rove-beetles, having hedged themselves within a barricade of their malodor, proceeded to feast, quarreling with one another as such cowards are wont to do.
From Edge of the Jungle by William Beebe
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