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How to pronounce stink in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms reek
Type of smell
Derivation stinker
Type Words
Synonyms fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench
Type of odor, smell, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation
Has types niff, pong
Derivation stinky
Type Words
Type of be
Derivation stinker


This term paper stinks!.

Examples of stink

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The problem for GEOX, however, is that the world's economy may stink even worse.
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I make a point of going to the gym five times a week and sweating until I stink.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
I like to stomp on them, thinking of all the stink bug babies I have eliminated.
From the post-gazette.com
Keep an eye out for spider mites and stink bugs, the two most common lima pests.
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For example, how come our public schools used to be so good, but now they stink?
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Too bad Vickers never made as big of a stink over who he had, not who he didn't.
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The family is starting to feel ill from the stink, and from taking cold showers.
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The insect has no natural predators and can outnumber native stink bugs 10-to-1.
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It's true, the Indians stink worse than the Pirates, hard as that is to believe.
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  • Be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance; "This term paper stinks!"
  • Malodor: a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
  • Reek: smell badly and offensively; "The building reeks of smoke"
  • (stinking) icky: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
  • (stinking) fetid: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
  • Stink is an EP by the band The Replacements, recorded at Blackberry Way, Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 13, 1982 and released on June 24, 1982 (see 1982 in music).
  • (Stinks) An odor or odour is caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds, generally at a very low concentration, that humans or other animals perceive by the sense of olfaction. Odors are also called scents, which can refer to both pleasant and unpleasant odors. ...
  • A strong bad smell; A complaint or objection; chemistry (as a subject taught in school); A failure or unfortunate event; To have a strong bad smell; To be greatly inferior; to perform badly; To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
  • (stinking) flatulent monarch - e.g., Montezuma was the archetypical stinking.