Pronunciations
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/ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/
Adjective
Having a pungent smell.
Very bad and undesirable.
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I have a stinking cold.
Very drunk.
Usage- Slang
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Oh, I got stinking—and, worse, acted like the world's worst heel to top it off. I passed out mentally about the time we left the club—which must have been around 2:30—but unfortunately didn't pass out physically.
An intensifier, a hypallage.
Usage- euphemistic
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We don’t need your stinking sympathy.
“Everyone shut up! Lord ThunderSteel commands it! I am your leader! I have this badge that says so!” “We don’t need no stinking badges!”
Noun
The emission of a foul smell.
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From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.
Adjective
very bad
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a lousy play
it's a stinking world
offensively malodorous
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a foul odor
the kitchen smelled really funky