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Examples of stink


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The novelist stayed away from" stinking petersburg" during the unbearably hot summer of 1866, to avoid his creditors but also on his guard against what he called" false inspiration".
His army may already be under the enemy's control and even the glory of the throne room is not what it seems: underneath the throne is hidden a stinking bedpan.
Her airless room had no windows, it stank of the insecticide that was used in a losing battle to control the roaches, and its ceiling was crisscrossed with sweating pipes.
He did some astonishing demonstrations in spite of his age, accompanying them with comments on the stylish taste of the aristocrats, and adding that 'the common people stank'.
A "wastewater conveyance facility" may "exceed the odor threshold" from time to time, but that is not to be confused with a sewage plant that stinks up the neighborhood.
Of course, the turtles might be repulsed by the stink.
The noise is unbearable and, most importantly, the pollution is not odourless: quite the opposite, it often stinks.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There is a saying that goes 'the fish stinks from the head down'.
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Proponents of the dual mechanism theory point out that irregular inflections are typically restricted either to single words (go-went) or to small clusters of phonologically similar words (sink-sank, drink-drank, stink-stank).
Just think about when you hear a good old freight train in the middle of the night; it is loud, it stinks and the brakes squeal.
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I believe we should emphasise with the utmost clarity that fish always start to stink from the head.
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What is now on the table has the stink of over-regulation, and that is not something that we can approve of.
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The more we see of the matter, the more it commercially and politically stinks.
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Instead of allowing people to be poisoned with stinking meat and pesticides, why do we not do more to encourage the growth of organic products?
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The risk-reward of methodology stinks.
They applied heavy spices and heavy perfumes to conceal the fact that their whole bodies stank.
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We waded through 2.5 ft of stinking sewage which surrounded my constituent's house.
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I would hate to see our estuary become a stinking drain.
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We should have been in a pretty kettle of fish, and stinking fish at that.
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The next year they said that the information service stank, and they recommended that it should be got rid of.
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The reason why the information service was bad, why it stank, was that every time they looked at it they cut it.
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Why do we indulge so much in stinking fish?
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In terms of morality it is completely indefensible; it stinks.
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They say that the whole thing stinks, they do not want it, and they will not have it.
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I hope that no one will tell me that this is crying stinking fish.
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The whole scheme stinks of racialism from beginning to end.
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Does he not agree that this rising cry of stinking fish is somewhat discreditable?
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I hope that in the negotiations the problem of stinking out will be covered, because it is just as important as stopping.
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They already live in an area which is full of stinking fumes and much traffic noise.
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If we cry stinking fish about the things we produce, we shall be doing the gravest injury to our workers.
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We have to put up with this stinking river without a proper water supply, and we are unable to flush the sewers.
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I ask that because, politically, this decision stinks.
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The corollary of that is that one should not cry stinking fish unless one is satisfied that everything is rotten.
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You have committed a wrong which stinks in the nostrils of world public opinion.
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I know that many farmers go on to silage, but silage stinks and it is mucky.
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His name stinks in the nostrils of every miner.
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She has acted like a stinking hypocrite in the way in which she has flouted an international agreement on whaling.
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He is making it easier for folk who are stinking rich to buy their champagne cheaper.
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The possibility of stinking spoil fills us with horror.
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I know the stinking miserable feeling in one's belly when one cannot provide the wherewithal for one's children.
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In its famous "stinking beach report" earlier this year it divided seaside resorts into various categories according to their sewage disposal arrangements.
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Toilets were stinking, plastic liners, filled to bursting, were piled near the chutes and soiled linen was piled up in odd quarters.
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They are leaving that stinking and sinking ship so fast it is unbelievable.
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When it is spread, it stinks to high heaven.
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In fact, the whole episode about dividend stripping inevitably stinks.
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I see no mention of the problem of stinking.
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Is he aware that something ought to be done quickly to end what is an intolerable, stinking nuisance?
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Stinking fish was a bad policy, he said.
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I think it important that we should not "cry stinking fish".
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The scandal of the land racket stinks to high heaven.
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The whole system stinks, and it needs to be altered.
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After generations, we have to remove these festering, stinking hovels.
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As a result, it has talked itself into a crisis, because it shouted stinking fish and other countries believed what it said.
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In our schooldays we used to refer to science, perhaps with some foresight, as "stinks".
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In any event, the case still stinks to high heaven.
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If he is aware of the misery that he is causing, he is a stinking hypocrite.
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The whole of the women's compound was filthy and it stank.
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Many of our prisons are horrible, rotting stinking places.
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If we were to hear it at all, we might have heard it, as it were, fresh instead of stinking.
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What is being provided for is part and parcel of the thrust of the legislation, and it stinks to high heaven.
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The whole business is a can of worms—it stinks to high heaven.
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Think of the stinking mess of political chaos and corruption that would confront us.
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Indeed, it stinks somehow of a banana republic.
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The report covers everything from the walrus to something which is called the stinking goosefoot.
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I am bound to say that the present procedure in my opinion stinks of natural injustice.
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We decided that we ought to pull down the stinking lot and build new homes.
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Do not let us unnecessarily cry stinking fish about our own people.
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I would say, in addition, that he is a very bad egg and that his defence policy stinks.
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Let us not cry stinking fish about our people and their output.
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Indeed, the new tenant paid £6 for the dirty, stinking old mattress which had been there since the old lady died.
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We are now becoming a country of stinking rivers.
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The dome is a stinking mess of incompetence and shoddy accounting.
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I was there two weeks ago, and the traffic is a stinking disaster.
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One day, about 50 years ago, my father went to the river and found a black, stinking ditch.
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More than any other privatisation deal, this deal stinks to high heaven.
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I remind him of the old proverb that a fish starts stinking from the head.
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Cries of stinking fish are apt to be heard overseas.
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Are they prepared to let people be poisoned by rotten stinking food when they could have healthy organic food?
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He says that dead, stinking mackerel are being washed ashore.
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He told the people there the older a thing was the more it stank.
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The muddy fish, stinking water and malarial air are all that is left for people to live on.
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The clause can be summed up in two words—it stinks.
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Talk about stinking gas, it does not compare with the composition which was used for covering the black sheet.
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I agree that these stinking fish are no longer being landed, but immature fish are still being landed.
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They stank from two points of view: first, the furniture was shoddy and, second, the design was rotten.
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Nothing stinks more in the nostrils of the very best section of the working class than this idea of the means test.
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In a heap it simply stinks, but if it is spread out evenly over the fields it brings forth fruit.
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One might almost say that the word "regional" stinks in the nostrils of the local authorities.
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Worthing has had problems with seaweed for many years: it has made a mess on the beach, and in summer it stinks.
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In all this part of the report the garlic stinks.
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No wonder that the public think that politics stinks; perhaps it does.
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We would even clean out the stinking privies which were a menace to our health in those days.
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The seed crusher and oil processor in docklands stinks out the whole constituency.
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In terms of political activity, it stinks.
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The whole process stinks of manipulation, propaganda, spin and deceit.
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We are stinking all over the world.
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They had almost worshipped the man, but now his name stinks in the very nostrils of every decent minded progressive individual throughout the length and breadth of the land.
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There is so much here that stinks.
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