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Recent Examples of skunky
Here’s a great piece from this week: Running along the trails that whipsaw through the oak forests of the Palo Alto hills, a reporter was hit with a musky, skunky smell that made the hair on her neck stand up.
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Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
Running along the trails that whipsaw through the oak forests of the Palo Alto hills, I was hit with a musky, skunky smell that made the hair on my neck stand up.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
English ales were — and are — less bitter and skunky than modern American porters and ales thanks to different hops, Clark said.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
Real weed emits a complex combination of earthy, skunky, and sometimes fruity aromas.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2023
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Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
Running along the trails that whipsaw through the oak forests of the Palo Alto hills, I was hit with a musky, skunky smell that made the hair on my neck stand up.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
English ales were — and are — less bitter and skunky than modern American porters and ales thanks to different hops, Clark said.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
Real weed emits a complex combination of earthy, skunky, and sometimes fruity aromas.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skunky
Adjective
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Teoscar Hernández’s inability to record an out on a ball that (according to Statcast) had a 90 percent catch probability had sunk the Dodgers in a walk-off loss to a putrid Colorado Rockies team, once again drawing attention to his right-field play that has been among the worst in baseball.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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The findings back up a hypothesis that had been put forward by Beasley’s coauthor John Speth, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, who has for nearly a decade argued that putrid meat and fish would have formed a key part of prehistoric diets.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Midsummer is usually when sargassum, the floating seaweed that often washes up in malodorous piles on Florida beaches, starts to wane.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Callery pear and Bradford pear trees are considered malodorous, according to the Spruce, a home and garden site.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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The smelly, hairy animals with terrible eyesight are actually a type of mammal known as a collared peccary.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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Words for different smells, or things that are smelly.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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Fish supplements that contain omega-3s are prone to going rancid.—
Amber Smith,
Discover Magazine,
4 Apr. 2022
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Much of the damage was from flooding, which left a thick layer of rancid muck on her floors.—
Stephen Smith and Bobby Caina Calvan,
Anchorage Daily News,
7 Oct. 2022
Adjective
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The shop will look for common indicators of flood damage such as damp and musty odors, carpet and upholstery that has been recently cleaned or replaced, dirt and dried mud under the dash, in the engine compartment, and inside the trunk.—
Rick Barrett,
jsonline.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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At the program’s outset, Felt tried to help the kids’ understanding by offering some musty statistics.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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The needle does seem to be shifting again to offering higher-quality food options during travel, soon making the stale popcorn of today a distant memory.—
Kristin L. Wolfe,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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The principles hang on a banner amid the lingering smell of stale sweat and constant work, near the mats that have launched journeys to national championships and the Olympics.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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A couple of years back, a funky floating home hit the market for $4.9 million in California’s Santa Barbara, and more recently, a $4.7 million two-bedroom houseboat was listed late last year not too far from Wanzer’s place in Seattle.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
24 Aug. 2025
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Her brand of pop-rock can get real funky, dip into R&B, and channel Afropop icons like the Lijadu Sisters.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Their stories include the reasons that kept them from evacuating and then the harrowing odysseys that took some of them through fetid streets of flood waters, others to the nightmare that was the Superdome or the Convention Center, and still others across impassable bridges and freeways.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.—
Graham Techler,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Skunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skunky. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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