stink

About 0.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To have a strong bad smell.
2. verb To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

   That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.

3. verb To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.

   Something stinks about the politician's excuses.

4. verb To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
5. noun A strong bad smell.
6. noun A complaint or objection.

   If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.

7. adjective Bad; inferior; worthless.

   The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.

8. adjective Bad-smelling, stinky.

Similar words

reek stench malodor fetor malodour foetor odour odor scent smell

Often followed by

of and in bug like bugs bombs about to

Word family

stank stinkier stinkiest stinking stinks stinky stunk