Example Sentences

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And yet, as is always the case with the Patriots, it's not nearly as reekingly bad as its AFC East counterparts...

From Golf Digest • Apr. 11, 2018

As such, it is a reekingly unpleasant book; when the author waxes lyrical and theological about his nasty little mess, it becomes a conceited one.

From Time Magazine Archive

No treason was ever so repulsively foul, so reekingly corrupt.

From Abraham Lincoln A Memorial Discourse by Eddy, Thomas Mears

Just for an instant the Senior Surgeon's narrowing eyes probed mercilessly into the reekingly false little smile.

From The White Linen Nurse by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

All the long place was reekingly hot, with a strong smell of human effluvia, of sweat-dampened clothing, of blood and powder grime.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary