Putrid
adjective
Something that smells very bad.
The putrid smell from the rubbish bin made me feel sick.
Often appears as...
- putrid smell
- putrid flesh
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Disapproving
adjective
Very bad, unpleasant, or of low quality.
The food in that restaurant was putrid.
Often appears as...
- putrid taste
- putrid quality
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Disapproving
Colloquial
adjective
In a state of decay or rot.
The putrid meat was attracting flies.
Often appears as...
- putrid food
- putrid corpse
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Disapproving
adjective
Something that smells very bad.
The putrid smell from the rubbish bin made me feel sick.
Often appears as...
- putrid smell
- putrid flesh
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Very bad, unpleasant, or of low quality.
The food in that restaurant was putrid.
Often appears as...
- putrid taste
- putrid quality
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
adjective
In a state of decay or rot.
The putrid meat was attracting flies.
Often appears as...
- putrid food
- putrid corpse
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Stench
Emphasizes an extremely unpleasant and overpowering smell, worse than just 'bad'.
The putrid stench from the landfill could be detected miles away.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Reaction
Use 'putrid' to describe smells that provoke a strong physical reaction, like gagging.
He gagged at the putrid odour emanating from the spoiled fish.
Pro Tip 3/3Imagery of Decay
'Putrid' often brings to mind images of decay, such as rotting food or death.
The putrid scent of decay hung around the abandoned house.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Stench
Emphasizes an extremely unpleasant and overpowering smell, worse than just 'bad'.
The putrid stench from the landfill could be detected miles away.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Reaction
Use 'putrid' to describe smells that provoke a strong physical reaction, like gagging.
He gagged at the putrid odour emanating from the spoiled fish.
Pro Tip 3/3Imagery of Decay
'Putrid' often brings to mind images of decay, such as rotting food or death.
The putrid scent of decay hung around the abandoned house.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Stench
Emphasizes an extremely unpleasant and overpowering smell, worse than just 'bad'.
The putrid stench from the landfill could be detected miles away.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Reaction
Use 'putrid' to describe smells that provoke a strong physical reaction, like gagging.
He gagged at the putrid odour emanating from the spoiled fish.
Pro Tip 3/3Imagery of Decay
'Putrid' often brings to mind images of decay, such as rotting food or death.
The putrid scent of decay hung around the abandoned house.
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The Corpse Flower:...
eggs and then they like to have a great time in them so pulses that smell out to get insects in it hopefully already have pollen on them from a previous plant that was in the male cycle somewhere in the area so they come in the heat generates the smell it's just overwhelmingly wonderful for them the plant only releases the putrid smell for two nights
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Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...
it's the most contaminated river in the world and what is this situation with this water. How bad is it?' So, we brought some water testing devices. This is actually in front of Agra, the Taj-- in Agra in front of the Taj Mahal. Many people maybe some of you have been to the Taj Mahal, but nobody goes out here. This is the most putrid river
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Marc Abrahams: A science...
and then he started to smell really, really bad. So bad that when he got in a room with the doctors and the nurses, they couldn't stand being in the room with him. It was intolerable. They tried every drug, every other treatment they could think of. After a year, he still smelled putrid. After two years, still smelled putrid.
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A young poet tells the...
too weak to run, too expensive to shoot, how they would march them, hands raised, rifles at their backs, into the fire? How their walking sticks kept the flames alive? It feels too harsh for a bundle of wires and an audience to swallow. Too relentless, like the valley that filled with the putrid smoke of our deaths.
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How we're using dogs to...
and yellow fever smells like the inside of a butcher shop, like raw meat. And in fact, when you look at the sort of words that are used to describe diseases, you tend to find these "rotting," "foul," "putrid" or "pungent."
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How do daily habits lead...
was they enclosed themselves in an information bubble. We've heard of fake news, yeah? Well, this shocked every group that I studied had some kind of a fake news slogan. French communists called it the "putrid press."
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How to make a mummy -...
and formed hard brown clumps. The corpse wasn't putrid, but it didn't exactly smell good, either. So, priests poured tree resin over the body to seal it, massaged it with a waxy mixture that included cedar oil,
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Funky Smelling Fruit PIPE...
invasion is underway staff at hotels watch nervously for a food that is putrid wretched and loved by millions meet the durian fruit their smell is hard to describe
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Advocating for gender...
argument never have I consumed such quantities of putrid coffee it's no wonder that wikileak reveals avold brains the process wasn't easy the United
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This Is 40,000 Years of...
during the Great Plague many thousands died and doctors wore masks they thought would protect them from the putrid air
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The Corpse Flower:...
eggs and then they like to have a great time in them so pulses that smell out to get insects in it hopefully already have pollen on them from a previous plant that was in the male cycle somewhere in the area so they come in the heat generates the smell it's just overwhelmingly wonderful for them the plant only releases the putrid smell for two nights
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Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...
it's the most contaminated river in the world and what is this situation with this water. How bad is it?' So, we brought some water testing devices. This is actually in front of Agra, the Taj-- in Agra in front of the Taj Mahal. Many people maybe some of you have been to the Taj Mahal, but nobody goes out here. This is the most putrid river
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Marc Abrahams: A science...
and then he started to smell really, really bad. So bad that when he got in a room with the doctors and the nurses, they couldn't stand being in the room with him. It was intolerable. They tried every drug, every other treatment they could think of. After a year, he still smelled putrid. After two years, still smelled putrid.
Video examples
A young poet tells the...
too weak to run, too expensive to shoot, how they would march them, hands raised, rifles at their backs, into the fire? How their walking sticks kept the flames alive? It feels too harsh for a bundle of wires and an audience to swallow. Too relentless, like the valley that filled with the putrid smoke of our deaths.
Video examples
How we're using dogs to...
and yellow fever smells like the inside of a butcher shop, like raw meat. And in fact, when you look at the sort of words that are used to describe diseases, you tend to find these "rotting," "foul," "putrid" or "pungent."
Video examples
How do daily habits lead...
was they enclosed themselves in an information bubble. We've heard of fake news, yeah? Well, this shocked every group that I studied had some kind of a fake news slogan. French communists called it the "putrid press."
Video examples
How to make a mummy -...
and formed hard brown clumps. The corpse wasn't putrid, but it didn't exactly smell good, either. So, priests poured tree resin over the body to seal it, massaged it with a waxy mixture that included cedar oil,
Video examples
Funky Smelling Fruit PIPE...
invasion is underway staff at hotels watch nervously for a food that is putrid wretched and loved by millions meet the durian fruit their smell is hard to describe
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
argument never have I consumed such quantities of putrid coffee it's no wonder that wikileak reveals avold brains the process wasn't easy the United
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This Is 40,000 Years of...
during the Great Plague many thousands died and doctors wore masks they thought would protect them from the putrid air
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Michael Eric Dyson
American Author
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.
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Jack Monroe
British Journalist
Yet there is clearly something about bold, neurodivergent women and girls that prompts powerful men to scrape the sides of their own putrid barrels of opinion to attack this 'terrifying' otherness.
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Frank Miller
American Artist
Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
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Tony Todd
American Actor
I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.
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Jef I. Richards
American Educator
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
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Hilton Als
American Writer
Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.
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James Lind
Scottish Scientist
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
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Michael Eric Dyson
American Author
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.
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Jack Monroe
British Journalist
Yet there is clearly something about bold, neurodivergent women and girls that prompts powerful men to scrape the sides of their own putrid barrels of opinion to attack this 'terrifying' otherness.
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Frank Miller
American Artist
Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
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Tony Todd
American Actor
I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.
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Jef I. Richards
American Educator
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
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Hilton Als
American Writer
Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.
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James Lind
Scottish Scientist
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
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