Something Smells: From "Malodorous" to "Mephitic" to "It Reeks!"

This list of words to describe something foul in the air runs the gamut from the downright genteel malodorous to mephitic, appropriate to describe a evil witch's brew. For more smelly-word etymologies see linguist and Vocabulary.com Blog contributor Adam Cooper's Something Smells: With summer temps peaking, we're bringing in the "funk."

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