rankness

noun

Definition of ranknessnext
as in foulness

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  1. stench
  2. stink
  3. reek
  4. funk
Noun
  • Obasi can’t stand the stench of this alien — who's also a commoner, to boot — and solves the inconvenience by handing him off to his queen Eshe (Thandiwe Newton), who'll raise him in the company of the pride’s females.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • And some days, its dusty air carries the stench of the polluted Salton Sea eight miles west.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of stench
Noun
  • The Giants gave Mike Kafka a promotion to assistant head coach last season to spray some cologne on their coaching staff’s stink coming off last season.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Yet, unlike the stink of GameStop, these are real, very real companies.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of stink
Noun
  • That neither Katherine nor Owen is compelled to buy into the social contract of the residency is one of several reasons Lonely Planet reeks of a kind of evil not otherwise found in this year’s crop of age-gap romances.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Biden’s pardon is so broad it reeks of dishonesty and irresponsibility.
    Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of reek
Noun
  • The low, squelching funk of the beat and Richman’s high falsetto were tuned to such a uniquely perfect frequency that everyone was happy to hear them, again and again, and again.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Thee Sacred Souls, the soul/R&B/funk trio from San Diego.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of funk
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