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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

stinking
    adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn:
           icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty,
           stinking, stinky]
    2: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled
       really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-
       smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-
       scented]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stink \Stink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stunk, Stank, p. pr. &
   vb. n. Stinking.] [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether
   good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to
   stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. st["o]kkva to leap, to
   spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. ? rancid. Cf.
   Stench.]
   To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting
   odor.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stinking \Stink"ing\,
   a. & n. from Stink, v.
   [1913 Webster]

   Stinking badger (Zool.), the teledu.

   Stinking cedar (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a
      related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia).
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Stinking:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abhorrent, abominable, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, besotted, bombed, boozy, brackish, bum, canned, cheesy, cloying, contemptible, crappy, creepy, crude, crummy, dastardly, despicable, detestable, dirty, disguised, disgusting, drunk, drunken, execrable, fecal, fetid, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, godawful, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gross, hairy, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, in the bag, inebriated, intoxicated, loaded, loathsome, lousy, low, maggoty, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, muddled, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, overripe, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, poisonous, potted, punk, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shitty, sickening, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, sozzled, spoiled, stenchy, stinky, stoned, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tanked, terrible, tipsy, under the influence, under the weather, vile, villainous, vomity, weevily, woozy, wretched, yecchy, yucky

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