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Discover LudwigThe word "putrid" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has a strong and unpleasant smell, especially because it is rotten. For example: "The putrid smell coming from the garbage made me want to cover my nose."
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putrid
adjective
Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
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Possibly.But even if there is something unusually putrid about British public life, the rot is more than the sum of individual abuses.
Distinctive odours that are fishy to putrid characterize the lower-molecular-weight amines.
He's the Pepsi of Austrian writing," Hofmann dismissed Zweig, calling him "putrid through and through".
The tides of war, persecution and economic desperation each year deposit thousands on the English Channel's edge to play a game of cat and mouse with an Anglo-French confection of rigid border controls, putrid living conditions and random arrest designed to deter their presence.
Masri says that he was chained in a freezing cell with no bed, and given water so putrid that he could smell it across the room.
The air hung heavy, thick, and putrid.
He said, "The water was putrid.
Her leg became discolored, swollen, and putrid.
Smoke from burning coal and from fires in harvested fields combined with chilly weather to produce the putrid sooty haze, which made it impossible to see farther than 20 metres.
Packages would be a putrid green, with the company's name written in uniform text beneath a grisly image one warning shows an eye prised open by wires.Compared with all this, America has been a laggard in the race to repulse.
The shacks may be putrid and dangerous, but they are also much in demand.
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