"stinking" in the verb sense
1. stink
be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
"This term paper stinks!"
2. reek, stink
smell badly and offensively
"The building reeks of smoke"
"stinking" in the adjective sense
1. icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky
very bad
"a lousy play"
"it's a stinking world"
2. fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented
offensively malodorous
"a foul odor"
"the kitchen smelled really funky"
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