I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stinking/filthy rich disapproving (= very rich )
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She was obviously stinking rich.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a dump full of stinking garbage
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He pointed to the stinking hole that we were to use as a toilet.
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I don't want to watch that stinking TV show.
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The yards were full of stinking garbage cans, and untidy lines of washing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they'd had men dragging those stinking waters for twenty-four hours and they'd come up with nothing.
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He could hardly ease himself free from the great stinking weight.
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I represent areas with stinking housing estates.
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The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris.
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With luck, she might be buried for ever under the wet newspapers, stinking food remnants and empty cornflake packets.
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You'd wed your daughter to a stinking Viking!
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You can not build a fair system on that stinking swamp of menace and malice and neglect.
II. adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Christmas, I tend to get stinking drunk with schlock.