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stench

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1. stench - Noun

2. stench - Verb

Meaning

A smell; an odor.

An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.

To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Writers speak stench. Franz Kafka

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. Robert Penn Warren

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. Cyril Connolly

The king lives way up where the stench of the poor cannot reach him. Zambian Proverb

If the tail of the dog can save me, I don't care about its stench. Tunisian Proverb

A fox does not smell his own stench. American Proverb

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