smelly
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- smelliness noun
Etymology
Origin of smelly
Example Sentences
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One used the codeword "smelly bananas" to signal things were getting too much.
From BBC
“The tsar’s imperial nose can smell your smelly toe shoes from Saint Petersburg!”
From Literature
She knew that London was a large, bustling, and confusing city, and that one wrong turn might send them wandering down dark cobblestone streets that dead-ended at smelly slaughterhouses and riverfront establishments of ill repute.
From Literature
The ones I could actually get were dark, smelly or unsafe.
From Los Angeles Times
It was at the university that the two first hit upon the idea of studying smelly shoes.
From BBC
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