fetid

[US]/ˈfetɪd/
[UK]/ˈfetɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. having a foul odor; smelling extremely unpleasant; putrid.

Phrases & Collocations

fetid odor

fetid smell

fetid breath

fetid garbage

Example Sentences

the fetid water of the marsh.

The air of the room was fetid with stale tobacco smoke.

a fetid odor that sickened the hospital workers.

The flowers of the fetid hellebore do not suffer because of the cold.

The den upon which his eye now rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid.

The fetid smell of garbage filled the alleyway.

He wrinkled his nose at the fetid odor coming from the old refrigerator.

The fetid water in the pond was a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

The fetid air inside the abandoned building made it hard to breathe.

The fetid socks left on the floor stank up the whole room.

The fetid swamp was home to many different types of bacteria.

The fetid meat had gone bad and needed to be thrown away.

The fetid smell of rotten eggs lingered in the kitchen.

She recoiled at the fetid breath of the person standing too close to her.

The fetid conditions in the overcrowded prison led to the spread of disease.

Real-world Examples

The 25 feet of coiled, soiled, fetid tubing inside you?

Source: Radio Laboratory

The mosquitoes from a fetid stream that ran through this part of the town buzzed in the room.

Source: The heart is a lonely hunter.

The mattress that C. Luis and his wife share below the cattle chute, surrounded by pools of fetid mud.

Source: CNN 10 Student English April 2017 Compilation

Since the nuns held firmly that the night air was harmful, the atmosphere in the dormitory was close and fetid.

Source: Veil

Whose death squad has left him among the " long slabs of meat" that " garbage men" will dump in fetid Beira lake?

Source: The Economist Culture

Four-thousand men, women and children live crammed together on a fetid pile of mud, surrounded by streams of sewage filled water, there are Burmese guards to stop them leaving.

Source: BBC Listening December 2012 Collection

She once more beheld the round table, the places laid on the American cloth, the window deriving its air and light from the dark and fetid back-yard.

Source: Women's Paradise (Middle)

London and Paris were fetid firetraps with none of the planning of sewage management of places 5,000 years older like Mohenjo Daro in the Indus Valley Civilization, let alone Rome.

Source: World History Crash Course

Dogged by loneliness and guilt, and unable to resurrect his crusade for trust, hope and faith, he descended into the fetid swamps of Russian nationalism, wallowing in the paranoid anti-Semitism he had once eschewed.

Source: The Economist - Arts

The air they pump is from the latrine itself, and fetid with the stench of human waste- but it brings life-saving oxygen as the men dig deeper and further into the earth.

Source: World Atlas of Wonders

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