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to be extremely bad or unpleasant: I think her whole attitude stinks. His acting stinks but he looks good, so he's offered lots of movie roles. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
1. : to emit a strong offensive odor. stank of urine. 2. : to be offensive. the election stank of corruption. also : to be in bad repute. 3. : to possess something to an offensive degree. stinking with wealth. 4. : to be extremely bad or unpleasant. the performance stank. that news really stinks. stinky. ˈstiŋ-kē. adjective.
to be offensive to honesty or propriety; to be in extremely bad repute or disfavor. Informal. to be disgustingly inferior: That book stinks. Slang. to have a large quantity of something (usually followed by of or with ): They stink of money. She stinks with jewelry. verb (used with object)
When things stink, they smell terrible. If you throw food scraps in your kitchen trash can, it will eventually start to stink. You can say that something stinks — your dog's breath, or your brother's feet — and you can call the offensive odor itself a stink.
If you say that something stinks, you mean that you disapprove of it because it involves ideas, feelings, or practices that you do not like. [informal, disapproval] I think their methods stink. [VERB] The whole thing stinks of political corruption. [VERB + of] Synonyms: be bad, be no good, be rotten, be offensive More Synonyms of stink.
to be extremely bad or unpleasant: I think her whole attitude stinks. His acting stinks but he looks good, so he's offered lots of movie roles. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
n. 1. a strong foul smell; stench. 2. slang a great deal of trouble (esp in the phrase to make or raise a stink) 3. like stink intensely; furiously. vb ( mainly intr) , stinks, stinking, stank, stunk or stunk. 4. to emit a foul smell.
Definition of stink verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
stink. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English stink1 /stɪŋk/ verb (past tense stank /stæŋk/, past participle stunk /stʌŋk/) [ intransitive] 1 to have a strong and very unpleasant smell It stinks in here! stink of His breath stank of alcohol.
STINK definition: 1. to smell very bad: 2. to be very bad and dishonest: 3. to complain about something in a…. Learn more.
