"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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