stink
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Is stink a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.Synonyms: pong, reekintransitive
2. (intransitive, stative, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.Examples: "That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end."; "They gave me Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen. I thought it was going to stink, but it didn't. It was a very good book."; "My French stinks, Langdon thought, but my zodiac iconography is pretty good. Taurus was always the bull. Astrology was a symbolic constant all over the world."Synonyms: suck, blowinformalintransitivestative
3. (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.Examples: "Something stinks about the politician's excuses."; "The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot."Synonyms: be fishyintransitive
4. (transitive) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.transitive
noun (English)
1. (informal) A complaint or objection.Examples: "If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done."countableinformaluncountable
adj (English)
1. (slang, New Zealand) Bad; inferior; worthless.Examples: "The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert."New-Zealandslang
2. (Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Bad-smelling, stinky.Examples: "2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013, Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…"; "Spending hours in a “stink" morgue, being called “Taliban”, thinking of getting shot in the head by officers—memories of Venezuela that have left Hamza Mohammed, imam of the Montrose mosque, still trembling today."; "2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, p. 5, […] what Ma Taffy smells on this early afternoon makes her sit up straight. She smells it high and ripe and stink on the air, like a bright green jackfruit in season being pulled to the rocky ground below."CaribbeanGuyanaJamaica
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