શબ્દ "દુગંધવાળું" શબ્દનો શબ્દકોશ અર્થ તીવ્ર અને અપ્રિય ગંધ છે; અપ્રિય ગંધ બહાર કાઢે છે. તેનો ઉપયોગ એવી કોઈ વસ્તુનું વર્ણન કરવા માટે પણ થઈ શકે છે જે અત્યંત નબળી ગુણવત્તાની હોય અથવા નૈતિક રીતે નિંદનીય હોય.
Then, powerful fingers grasped her by the hair and dragged her mercilessly down hard stairs and along slick, stinking floors.
By the time he was finished, the man was a badly mauled carcass, the flesh stripped from his arms and legs, his stomach open and stinking, and his ribs splayed and broken.
The damp corridors closed tighter around them and the air grew impossibly humid and stinking.
Then, the streets had been cold and dark and wet, slippery and stinking of death.
Dragged from the colonnades of Rome to sit in some stinking wooden outpost?
There was always an unhealthy cough or a wet sniff, or somebody wandering back from the stinking toilets in a half daze.
The heavy, acrid smell of smoke and sweat came from him in stinking waves.
It was depressing having to listen their way out of that stinking box.
A closer look showed it was only Frank Wenders stinking up the doorway.
Black, stinking blood sprayed around the cave, soaking her white gown and making the ground iridescent and slick.