stinking iris

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an iris plant, Iris foetidissima, of W Europe and N Africa, having purplish flowers and a strong unpleasant smell when bruisedAlso called: gladdon

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How to use stinking iris in a sentence

And “stinking rich” is the smell of zero carbon emissions at eco-friendly tech company campuses.
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Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
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But the language about public schools and cricket bewildered audiences and Frank Rich gave it a stinking review.
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The Black PrinceBy Iris Murdoch This is my favourite novel of all time and is structurally extremely (and successfully) ambitious.
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The same is true for Iris Dart, who has adapted her book Beaches (later a popular film) for the stage.
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If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
The iris of the human eye dilates and contracts with every shift of illumination, and the Time Observatory had an iris too.
The Man from Time|Frank Belknap Long
The light that came through the machine's iris was faint at first, the barest glimmer of white in deep darkness.
The Man from Time|Frank Belknap Long
And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
There were morning-glories for the mid-summer season, peonies and iris for the spring, and chrysanthemums for autumn.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa