Verb The food is good at that restaurant, but the service stinks. Having a root canal stinks. Noun People raised a stink about the new law. He kicked up a stink about the way he'd been treated.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
What everyone has learned over the last two years is that remote broadcasts stink. Bill Oram, oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2022 The gap prevents drain water from flowing back into the dishwasher, which would stink and could be a health hazard. Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022 The travel is going to stink, particularly for the basketball teams. Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022 If there is no underlying medical condition that needs to be treated, prevention is the most effective way to address stink. Macaela Mackenzie, Allure, 1 July 2022 Do stink bugs bite? Stink bugs stick to plants and other outdoor food sources. Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 14 June 2022 That said, it’s comforting to see that there are new cars available for that price that don’t stink. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 June 2021 Atlanta hits Carolina with an intradivision broadside that the Panthers are going to have to really stink to get the No. 1 pick in 2023. Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 21 Apr. 2022 Their thorns can puncture vehicles tires and their blooms stink, Long said. Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
Noun
Big Oil, the major oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron, did not make a big stink about the IRA, and that speaks volumes. Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022 The stink of it would hang over CAP, and Democrats and liberals generally, literally for years and years. Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 23 May 2022 In most cases, government subsidies of sports stadiums are gigantic wastes of money — but the $1 billion handout being prepared for the billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills is a giant waste of money that has the stink of corruption on it. The Editors, National Review, 23 Apr. 2022 The result is a soup that not only fails to soften the chewiness of the tripe, but also infuses the broth and nixtamal with the natural and expected stink of a cow’s digestive system. Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2022 Call it the stink of being square, which turned those body styles into icons of the grocery-store parking lot. Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 12 July 2022 Neem oil or essential oils are the best ways to chase away stink bugs while also preventing their stench. Cierra Britten, The Enquirer, 28 June 2022 That branding is a stink that doesn’t easily wash out and should be avoided at all costs. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022 Musk is raising a big stink about spam accounts, but most people who are following this truly bizarre corporate drama agree the bot issue is little more than a pretext for Musk to renege on the deal, which wildly overvalued Twitter at 54.20 a share. Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English, from Old English stincan; akin to Old High German stinkan to emit a smell
First Known Use
Verb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1