stinkingness
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]stinkingness (uncountable)
- The quality of being stinking.
- 1950, Saturday Review of Literature, volume 33, number 2, page 23:
- Its sweetness cuts the gall-bitter taste of defeat which, to the palate, is as the stinkingness to the nose of the pus-running wounds of soldiers.
- 1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Janet P. Morgan, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, page 141:
- Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is.