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Stinking vs Odious - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between stinking and odious

is that stinking is having a pungent smell while odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

As a verb stinking

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun stinking

is the emission of a foul smell.

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

    odious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
    • Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
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    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.

    Synonyms

    * detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable

    Anagrams

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