Loathsome vs Malodorous - What's the difference?
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Having a bad odor
(figuratively) Highly improper.
As adjectives the difference between loathsome and malodorous
is that loathsome is highly offensive; sickening, abominable while malodorous is having a bad odor.loathsome
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "loathsome" is often applied: disease, creature, thing, person, man, woman, dungeon, place, world, smell, act.External links
* * *malodorous
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Alternative forms
* malodourousAdjective
(en adjective)- There were tons of malodorous garbage bags outside her house.