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smelly

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++smell·y /ˈsmeli/ adjective (comparative smellier, superlative smelliest)  SMELLhaving a strong unpleasant smell 有臭味的 SYN stinky smelly feet 臭脚smelliness noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
smellyThe hut was dark and smelly.It may be necessary to pre-heat the burner in cool weather and the fumes can be smelly.How proudly she defined her eccentric self with every smelly bite she took and every word she said!Don't invite smelly boys from climbing clubs.Toilet roll, used, in small smelly brown-streaked sheets - both the hard kind and the soft kind.The lake was rapidly turning brown and smelly from the factory wastes.There was an absence of friends; but the animals with their smelly residues had not kept the friends away.Next came reddish-brown dry rot that turned quickly into smelly slime.Don't leave your smelly sneakers lying around the living room.smelly socksTake the apartment, up on the top floor of a smelly tenement on Prospect Avenue.It had never occurred to me how smelly the Bath Assembly Rooms probably were, for instance.
smell·y adjectiveChineseSyllable
having strong a Corpus smell unpleasant


smelly
smelly /ˈsmeli/ adjective (comparative smellier, superlative smelliest)
having a strong unpleasant smell
   SYN  stinky:
    smelly feet
—smelliness noun [uncountable]


smellyBrE /ˈsmeli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsmeli/ 🔊 adjective (smell·ier, smelli·est) (informal) having an unpleasant smell 有难闻气味的;有臭味的smelly feet臭脚