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stinking

[ sting-king ]

adjective

  1. that smells foul; foul-smelling.

    Synonyms: miasmal, rank, foul, putrescent, rotten, putrid, smelly

  2. Slang. very drunk; plastered.
  3. Slang. very rich:

    His father left him so much money he's stinking.

  4. contemptible; disgusting:

    a stinking shame.



adverb

  1. completely or extremely:

    stinking drunk.

stinking

/ ˈstɪŋkɪŋ /

adjective

  1. having a foul smell
  2. informal.
    unpleasant or disgusting
  3. slang.
    postpositive very drunk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adverb

  1. informal.
    (intensifier, expressing contempt for the person referred to)

    stinking rich

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈstinkingness, noun
  • ˈstinkingly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • stinking·ly adverb
  • stinking·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stinking1

before 1000; Middle English stinkinge, Old English stincende. See stink, -ing 2
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Example Sentences

One ancient source described aspiring scribes as “stinking bulls.”

And “stinking rich” is the smell of zero carbon emissions at eco-friendly tech company campuses.

Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”

But the language about public schools and cricket bewildered audiences and Frank Rich gave it a stinking review.

She goes on to dismiss “stinking romanticism” as sick, akin to “boils & blisters & warts.”

And Alfonso goes, "Badges, we don't need no stinking badges" and starts shooting at them.

If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?

And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.

Again, we will pass through stinking sewers, up to our elbows in putrid filth.

It makes me smile, Why, what a stinking smother will they utter!

Extract of stinking goose-foot; Extractum chenopodii, L. Prep.

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