Sentence examples for of a stinker from inspiring English sources

Sadly, however, Black Gold is a bit of a stinker: a two-and-a-half-hour slog as light on drama as it is heavy on portentous dialogue.

No star can change the odor of a stinker," says Leonard Maltin, the critic and film historian.

Middlesex batsman Dawid Malan is determined to have a successful season in the four-day format after having "a bit of a stinker" in 2013.

So, while it is tempting to dismiss his first day of Test cricket as a bit of a stinker, we should bear with him and give him a chance to put things right.

But still, pushing out a messaging app into two marketplaces that are already full to the brim with them is a very curious move indeed, and one that on the surface seems like something of a stinker.

The latter, by the way, was difficult in that I personally feel this year has been somewhat of a stinker for movies.

The 1983-87 Renault Alliance was the Pepé Le Pew of subcompacts, a stinker born of Renault's short-lived alliance — hence the name — with American Motors.

The thing about Friday's match is that some of us old hands who have been around the World Cup a bit have seen it before — the old Czechoslovakia and Austria thumping the boy soldiers from America in 1990, Jens Jeremies of Germany belting Claudio Reyna in the kidneys in the opening minutes of 1998, a stinker to Poland in 2002 and then a clunker to the Czech Republic in 2006.

Marcy, the overweight, painfully shy, very clever heroine of Gymsuit, has a stinker of a dad to deal with – a patriarchal oppressor of the old school – as well as compulsory PE, which forces her to come up with a series of excuses to avoid baring all to her classmates (hence the title).

Dowd himself appears, confessing his misdeeds in much the same tone of cheerful "ain't-I-a-stinker?" chutzpah as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Not long before they became reacquainted two decades later, Roosevelt would remember that Churchill, who was serving as Britain's minister of munitions, "acted like a stinker … lording it over all of us" and was one of the rudest people he had met in public life.