Performs poorly, so to speak

Usage examples of stinks.

For an eternity they moved through a darkness that had direction and space only because now and again the flow of air would shift and faint scents or stinks touch them before fading away: rotten eggs, yeast, the sting of an iron forge, lichen and, strangely, salt water.

All he smelled was clean salt air--none of the rotting stinks of the South Carolina swamps.

The air tasted of exhaust fumes and coal smoke and horse manure and chemical stinks Anne could not name.

Now the stinks and the inconveniences, though still familiar, jolted her when she visited.