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Disgusting vs Stinking - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between disgusting and stinking

is that disgusting is causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful while stinking is having a pungent smell.

As verbs the difference between disgusting and stinking

is that disgusting is present participle of lang=en while stinking is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun stinking is

the emission of a foul smell.

disgusting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
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    • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)

    • stinking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a pungent smell.
  • Very bad and undesirable.
    • Despite leading the way for years, the new model is really stinking .
  • (vulgar) An intensifier, a minced oath.
    • We don't need your stinking sympathy.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The emission of a foul smell.
  • * 2013 , Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited (page 42)
    • From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings , quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.
    English minced oaths