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1. Very bad
   "it's a stinking world";
   - icky, lousy, rotten, stinky, crummy, rubbish [Brit]
    
2. Offensively malodorous
   - fetid, foetid [Brit], foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, ill-scented

1. Be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
   "This term paper stinks!"
    
2. Smell badly and offensively
   "The building stinks of smoke";
   - reek, hum [Brit]

See also: bad, ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous [Brit, Cdn, non-standard], minging [Brit], pongy [Brit], stink up, stinky, unpleasant-smelling, whiffy [Brit]

Type of: be, smell

Encyclopedia: Stinking