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词汇 ill-smelling
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Definition of ill-smelling in English:

ill-smelling

adjective
  • Having an unpleasant smell.

    ill-smelling foreign cheeses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The door of the stable swung invitingly open, but it was a dark, musty, ill-smelling place.
    • So that householders may be warned of escaping gas, ill-smelling or acrid chemicals are injected into the pipes in some sections of the country.
    • Nietzsche, who had proposed marriage before turning against her, lashed out in a letter to call her "a dried-up, dirty, ill-smelling monkey".
    • Most of the workers lived in large, ill-smelling brick tenements, and these dwellings were badly overcrowded.
    • A survey of postwar housing conditions determined that families were crowded together in dark, ill-smelling apartments, and were unable to find better quarters.
    • I'm a smoker myself, and tired of all the other flaws of character besides the love of tobacco we are supposed to be in possession of (we are inconsiderate, ill-smelling etc.).
    • When walking around the crater I was at times totally enveloped in smoke and other ill-smelling gaseous mixtures.
    • The place was filled with an ill-smelling haze from the deep-fat friers in the back kitchen.
    • At last he found one of those ill-smelling beetles, with its head stuck way down in the midst of the roots.
    Synonyms
    offensive, unpleasant, nasty, disagreeable, revolting, sickening, obnoxious, noxious
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