What is "fetid"

Usage examples of "fetid".

Superaware because of the Aggressor still in his system, Zammit could tell the big man was spending more time casting sideways glances at him than looking at the fetid contamination in the reservoir.

A painter would have stopped to admire the night effects of this scene, but Marie, not wishing to enter into conversation with Barbette, who sat up in bed and began to show signs of amazement at recognizing her, left the hovel to escape its fetid air and the questions of its mistress.

The only light was the fetid bioluminescence coming off the heaps of garbage.

She drew back her nose in distaste, the fetid order of henbane confirming her suspicions.

He wandered through the apartment with fetid odorific waftings, what was new?

Meat spoiled in a few hours in the fetid and pestiferous air, and turned black.

At Romani especially the ground was littered with bones, great ravens hung over the putrifying bodies of animals, and a horrid, fetid smell pervaded the atmosphere.

Sadly, there was always a significant number of expeditions that encountered nothing more exciting than fetid jungles, smarmy natives, and dull animals that were so patently stupid that they would wander directly in front of you and politely wait while you dug the old .

It contains the coarsest and most uneatable of fish, such as the cat-fish and such genus, and as you descend, its banks are occupied with the fetid alligator, while the panther basks at its edge in the cane-brakes, almost impervious to man.

The big saurian became animated in the fetid warmth and treated Quent to a harangue on phytogenetics.

The principal remedial agent--as far as my observation extended--was a rank, fetid species of unrectified spirits, which, I was told, was made from sorgum seed.

A rank and fetid odor permeated the air, a smell that whispered of things dying and fouled.

Chinese Classics in gold upon them, and the large establishment, show that the family belongs to the upper class of Anamites, and leave one quite unprepared for the reeking, festering heap of garbage below the house, the foul, fetid air, and swarming vermin of the interior, and the unwashedness of the inmates.

I have not endured two hundred and forty years of tapasya in the fetid swamps of the Bhayanak-van just to be tricked by a shape-shifting Asura such as yourself.

There were buzzings and rustlings in the thick patches of ferns, and intense heat rose from fetid pools between the bloodroot trees, where the great fanned buttresses spread into the swamp.