Antonyms for stink
stɪŋkstink

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1. stinkverb

   To have a strong bad smell.

   Synonyms:
   stench, odor, smell, odour, reek, pong, fetor

2. stinkverb

   A complaint or objection.

   That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.

   Synonyms:
   suck, blow

3. stinkverb

   chemistry

   Something stinks about the politician's excuses.

   Synonyms:
   fishy

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1. stinknoun

   Antonyms:
   sweet odor, fragrance

   Synonyms:
   stench, fetor, bad smell

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1. • Be
   • Smell

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1. malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitisverb

   a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

   Synonyms:
   stench, foetor, fetor, malodour, genus Mephitis, malodor, mephitis, reek

2. stinkverb

   be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance

   "This term paper stinks!"

   Synonyms:
   reek

3. reek, stinkverb

   smell badly and offensively

   "The building reeks of smoke"

   Synonyms:
   reek, smack, smell, fume

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1. stinknoun

   Synonyms:
   stench, fetor

How to use stink in a sentence?

1. Seán O'Casey:

   The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

2. Ernest Hemingway:

   I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

3. Rebecca West:

   Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

4. Kelly Lyons:

   She left a big stink in people's mouth when she quit after running( for vice president). That rubbed people the wrong way.

5. Charlize Theron:

   I remember when Gwyneth Paltrow married her husband Brad and they lived in separate homes and people made such a stink about it, and I was like, Thats my kind of relationship!

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