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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

You are like unto whitened sepulchres; the outside appears gay, but within all is bones and putridity.

From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Sue, Eugène