stinking
/ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/ adjective B2- Having a pungent smell.
- Very bad and undesirable. · I have a stinking cold.
- Very drunk.
- An intensifier, a hypallage. · We don’t need your stinking sympathy.
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Shortly after the nuptials, the Eagle said, “Fly off and bring me back the ostrich you promised me.” The Kite, soaring aloft into the air, brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the length of time it had lain about the fields.
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