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Slinking vs Stinking - What's the difference?

slinking | stinking |

As verbs the difference between slinking and stinking

is that slinking is while stinking is .

As nouns the difference between slinking and stinking

is that slinking is the act of one who slinks while stinking is the emission of a foul smell.

As an adjective stinking is

having a pungent smell.

slinking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who slinks.
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • at midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed.

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    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