Sentence examples for stinker in a from inspiring English sources

How its now shop-soiled director will recover – having struck out with a third stinker in a row following the dismal one-two of Lady In The Water and The Happening – is really anyone's guess.

Sean Penn is also giving the genre a try in hopes of restarting his career, after a dreadful 2013 where he picked two stinkers in a row: Gangster Squad and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

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 tin-eared are the authors that they declare the New York Times "had an almost schizophrenic view" of Catcher on the basis that reviewers for the Sunday and daily editions didn't agree – which would be like accusing Guardian Media Group of having a schizophrenic view of Martin Amis if he got a positive notice in the Review and a stinker in the Observer.

The high-street bank had bought a stinker in Dutch giant, ABN Amro, and it was short of ready cash amid a giant credit crunch.

"Titus had a stinker in Heerenveen," said the manager.

He thought he had blown his chances at England under-16 level by having a stinker in his first London and South-East trial game in Barnet.

Have your say on our readers' poll Juan Imhoff switches wing because Santiago Cordero had a stinker in Argentina's semi-final against Australia.

Dave Attwood can feel hard done by for losing his place in the 23. 5 Courtney Lawes 8/10 Had a stinker in this fixture two years ago but boy has he developed since then.

But as was rightly pointed out at the time, the film was "a stinker" in its corruption of history, showing black volunteers fighting alongside their white American brothers, when in fact their only hope of escaping slavery was to reach British-held territory.

What a stinker in the Guardian today Simon'".