Fetid
adjective
Having a bad smell.
The fetid water of the stagnant pond made us gag.
adjective
Extremely unpleasant; horrible.
The fetid atmosphere in the meeting room after the heated argument was palpable.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Figurative
adjective
Having a bad smell.
The fetid water of the stagnant pond made us gag.
adjective
Extremely unpleasant; horrible.
The fetid atmosphere in the meeting room after the heated argument was palpable.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Figurative
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Description
Used to express strong dislike or disgust due to an unpleasant odor.
The fetid smell coming from the garbage bin was unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Describing Decay
Commonly used when something is decomposing or rotting, like food or organic matter.
They discovered fetid leftovers rotting in the fridge.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Imagery
Evokes a strong sensory response, making it effective in vivid storytelling or descriptions.
The detective entered the fetid, dimly-lit room, instantly feeling uneasy.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Description
Used to express strong dislike or disgust due to an unpleasant odor.
The fetid smell coming from the garbage bin was unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Describing Decay
Commonly used when something is decomposing or rotting, like food or organic matter.
They discovered fetid leftovers rotting in the fridge.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Imagery
Evokes a strong sensory response, making it effective in vivid storytelling or descriptions.
The detective entered the fetid, dimly-lit room, instantly feeling uneasy.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Description
Used to express strong dislike or disgust due to an unpleasant odor.
The fetid smell coming from the garbage bin was unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Describing Decay
Commonly used when something is decomposing or rotting, like food or organic matter.
They discovered fetid leftovers rotting in the fridge.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Imagery
Evokes a strong sensory response, making it effective in vivid storytelling or descriptions.
The detective entered the fetid, dimly-lit room, instantly feeling uneasy.
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A tale of mental illness...
in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness. The air was fetid, the room a shambles. Steve, both a lawyer and a psychologist, has treated many patients with severe mental illness, and to this day he'll say I was as bad as any he had ever seen. 'Hi,' I said, and then I returned to the couch,
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A tale of mental illness...
middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness the air was fetid the room of shambles Steve both a lawyer and a psychologist has treated many patients with severe mental illness and to this day he'll say I was bad as bad as any he had ever seen hi I said and then I returned to the
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Tanner PIPE Dangerous Jobs
means the start of a stinking wet filthy of all the foul tasks no scene must do few are worse than washing the animal skins and there's no other way to do it into climb right into the tub a fetid sewer of animal hides flesh hair and
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A tale of mental illness...
in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness. The air was fetid, the room a shambles. Steve, both a lawyer and a psychologist, has treated many patients with severe mental illness, and to this day he'll say I was as bad as any he had ever seen. 'Hi,' I said, and then I returned to the couch,
Video examples
A tale of mental illness...
middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness the air was fetid the room of shambles Steve both a lawyer and a psychologist has treated many patients with severe mental illness and to this day he'll say I was bad as bad as any he had ever seen hi I said and then I returned to the
Video examples
Tanner PIPE Dangerous Jobs
means the start of a stinking wet filthy of all the foul tasks no scene must do few are worse than washing the animal skins and there's no other way to do it into climb right into the tub a fetid sewer of animal hides flesh hair and
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Quote examples
Richard Corliss
American Writer
In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.
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Amanda Foreman
British Historian
Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but devoid of the ambition or calculation required to survive in the fetid atmosphere of the French court. In many ways, her character was not unlike that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.
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Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.
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Richard Corliss
American Writer
In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.
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Amanda Foreman
British Historian
Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but devoid of the ambition or calculation required to survive in the fetid atmosphere of the French court. In many ways, her character was not unlike that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Quote examples
Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.
Quote examples
Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.
Example 1 of 5
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