1. putrid - Adjective
2. putrid - Adjective Satellite
Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.
Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. Henryk Sienkiewicz
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. Dorothy Day
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. James Lind
He who does not love their national language is worse than a putrid fish. Filipino Proverb
Puffed goods are putrid. Latin Proverb
Water long stagnant becomes putrid. Persian Proverb