putrid
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1. putrid - Adjective
2. putrid - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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.
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Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
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.
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
He who does not love their national language is worse than a putrid fish.
Puffed goods are putrid.
Water long stagnant becomes putrid.