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(adj)
Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
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Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
Alternative spelling of fetid. [Foul-smelling, stinking.]
Foul-smelling, stinking.
(literary) Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
Having a pungent smell.
Having a bad smell.
Having an unpleasant odor.
Having a bad odor.
(slang, UK, US) Cool; great; excellent.
(n)
The condition of something that festers.
(medicine) Consisting of pus.
Having an infection.
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
Of or pertaining to sepsis.
(medicine) Containing or exuding pus.
in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
(obsolete) having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.
Becoming putrid; putrefying.
rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless
Somewhat rotten.
An unwise or intellectually impaired person.
Somewhat or partly putrid.
Destroyed or damaged by rot.
Having undergone decay, rotted.
(slang, Australia) Drunk; intoxicated.
(obsolete) Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.
Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
(MLE, slang) A gun or in particular an old or worn one.
(informal) Characterised or marked by rot or rotting.
fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight
(figurative, of a person, an organization, or a cultural phenomenon) Corrupt; evil; immoral.
Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
Pertaining to or consisting of ordure (dung).
Dirty with faeces or other impurities
(of oily or fatty food) Rank in taste or smell.
(figurative, of persons or their thoughts) Confused; mixed up.
A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
(figurative) Sickening; unsatisfactory; generally bad.
Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
(rare) evil-smelling; fetid.
Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
Covered with or befouled with or as with excrement.
Corroded; having been oxidized or covered in rust.
(obsolete) Grown rank; rancid; rusty.
(slang) grotty; dirty; unpleasant
Covered with filth; very dirty.
Characterised or marked by foulness or filth; filthy; (by extension) wretched.
(rare) Filthy, dirty; debauched.
(rare) That is characteristic of, or prone to festering.
dominated or plagued by scum.
Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
Infected with gangrene; gangrenous.
(archaic) Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
Synonym of spunky.
Emitting a reek; smelly.
In a reeking condition; having a strong odour.
(by extension) disgusting; contemptible.
repulsive, disgusting
Smeared, covered, or soiled with excrement.
dominated or plagued by waste.
(by extension, UK, dialect) Rank and smelly.
Lacking hygiene; unclean.
Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Having a bad smell.
(figurative) Obscene, indecent.
(computing) Affected by bit rot.
Sordid, squalid or corrupt.
Having rusted completely; having become covered in rust; having become non-functional over time.
Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”).
(US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
Having a stench or foul odour, malodorous.
Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.
Full of or parasitized by worms.
Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit.
(India, obsolete) A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains.
Covered with mould.
(African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) A stink; a foul smell.
Alternative form of foul-smelling. [Having an unpleasant odor.]
Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
(slang, vulgar) Full of unpleasantness, inferiority, or something distasteful; completely shitty (all senses)
(US) Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot.
Alternative form of wormridden. [Full of or parasitized by worms.]
Wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc.
Pertaining to mud, muddy.
(childish) A bowel movement; feces or diarrhoea
(Ottawa Valley) Heavenly; Upon the sky.
Unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair.
(obsolete) corrupt; full of corruption.
Full of or infested with rats.
(archaic) Becoming rancid or sour.
Exhibiting or relating to crapulence.
Any radioactive substance.
Smoky, dirty, squalid.
Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul.
(of a peat) Decomposed.