putrid
adjective
in a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten.
putridity
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a word derived from
putrid.
Example Sentences
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Without them, we’d live in a world of putridity and pestilence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
But an equally alarming problem surfaced as offenses reached new levels of putridity.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2017
They found meat at Navy depots to be "garbage and putridity in a horrible state".
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2013
I love the crazy steeplechase of the NFL season, but there's some justice to Bill Simmons' complaints about the era of "perpetual putridity."
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2011
There is nothing, he tells us in Fifine, which cannot reflect it; even moral putridity becomes phosphorescent, "and sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures."
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
