: having a heavy offensive smell
a fetid swamp
fetidly
adverb
fetidness
noun
Synonyms
Examples of fetid in a Sentence
a fetid pool of water
the fetid odor of rotting vegetables
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The cellblock was hot, and the air still and fetid.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
For example, if someone anywhere else in the country gets trapped in an outhouse toilet, is submerged to the waist in fetid muck and must be extracted by fire fighters, Florida Man is jealous and will consider suing for copyright infringement.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
Billions of shoreline creatures, especially shellfish, simply baked to death, strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2023
And the cargo area is plumbed so that its atmosphere is exchanged every 120 seconds—not because the deceased may be emitting fetid odors but because the attendant floral arrangements atop the casket inevitably are.
—John Phillips, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2023
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
For example, if someone anywhere else in the country gets trapped in an outhouse toilet, is submerged to the waist in fetid muck and must be extracted by fire fighters, Florida Man is jealous and will consider suing for copyright infringement.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
Billions of shoreline creatures, especially shellfish, simply baked to death, strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2023
And the cargo area is plumbed so that its atmosphere is exchanged every 120 seconds—not because the deceased may be emitting fetid odors but because the attendant floral arrangements atop the casket inevitably are.
—John Phillips, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2023
See all Example Sentences for fetid
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“Fetid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetid. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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