odorous
adjective
odorously
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a word derived from
odorous.
Example Sentences
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The Commission had reserved its decision, and the newspapers had gone off on a number of other scents of wrong-doing that seemed more odorously promising.
From Together by Robert Herrick
The kitchens, stables and outhouses were odorously barbaric in squalor.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
The bread was baking odorously and a variety of shavings flying ambitiously from an embryo pipe by ten o'clock.
From Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple
The state is odorously rotten—but everything else is charming.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
The sweet wind danced on airy feet in and out of the cypresses and the gums, kissed them, stole their breath, and tossed it abroad odorously.
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
