Lynn Coady

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

Canadian Novelist

Madison Beer

My weirdest scent association is probably Axe Body Spray, because every boy I know wears that stuff, and the smell is so specific! And the loud noise when you spray it! My little brother used to wear it, and the whole house would reek of it for days.

American Musician

Paulina Porizkova

I used to think the word 'feminist' reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn't need to say it.

Czechoslovakian Model

Adora Svitak

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

American Author

Gordon B. Hinckley

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

American Clergyman

Steve Kornacki

The Tea Party was really a two-front war - one against Obama, the other against any Republican politician who reeked of insiderdom or insufficient purity.

Julie Klausner

I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.

Dave Foley

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

Canadian Comedian

Rene Magritte

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Belgian Artist

Maggie Lawson

American Actress

Using 'reek' in reference to smells suggests a strong, negative reaction.

Negative Implication

'Reek' implies a smell is intense and pervasive, easily noticed by others.

Intensity Matters

'Reek' can suggest the smell causes physical discomfort or offense.

Physical Discomfort

When not about smell, 'reek' means something is very obvious or apparent.

Figurative Meaning

This use of 'reek' often implies a negative judgment or opinion.

Negative Judgment

To 'reek of' something non-physical means there is a subtext or an underlying trait.

Subtext Understanding

 and you put it on top, and smoke starts pouring out. I would come home with my clothes reeking of woodsmoke. I love raku because it allows me to play with the elements. I can shape a pot out of clay and choose a glaze,

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 major problem and reek goes out with locals to see how overfishing by commercial boats and large Nets has helped wipe out the fish population

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Negative Implication

Intensity Matters

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