: having a heavy offensive smell
a fetid swamp
fetidly
adverb
fetidness
noun
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Examples of fetid in a Sentence
a fetid pool of water
the fetid odor of rotting vegetables
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Similarly, Musk has transformed Twitter into a dull, fetid cesspool of White nationalism and paranoid lies.
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Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
The city’s shimmering wealth and fetid corruption leap from the page; so, too, does music’s transcendent, radiant power.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
Well before swimming in the Seine was prohibited about 100 years ago, the river had already earned a reputation as a fetid open sewer.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
The cellblock was hot, and the air still and fetid.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
The city’s shimmering wealth and fetid corruption leap from the page; so, too, does music’s transcendent, radiant power.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
Well before swimming in the Seine was prohibited about 100 years ago, the river had already earned a reputation as a fetid open sewer.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
The cellblock was hot, and the air still and fetid.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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 8 Nov. 2024.
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