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UK
/stˈɪŋkɐ/
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NOUN
- anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar)
- an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
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a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
kill the rat
only a rotter would do that
the British call a contemptible person a `git'
you cowardly little pukes!
throw the bum out
How To Use stinker In A Sentence
- High-tech air sniffers were deployed in case someone unleashed a chemical or biological assault on Tinseltown more serious than a low-budget stinker.
- The voice of the Indianapolis Colts had some extremely harsh words for quarterback Peyton Manning, the kind of extremely harsh words Peyton isn't used to hearing even during a four-interception stinkeroo of a performance. Peyton Manning, Cliff Lee and Carl Crawford, Red Sox vs. Yankees, Jets vs. Giants (almost)
- It may well turn out to be a stinker anyway, but at least its leading actor has put in a bit of spadework.
- The setting: the annual Raspberry awards, ‘Hollywood's least coveted trophies’ for cinematic stinkers, given out by 700 members of the nonprofit Golden Raspberry Award Foundation.
- I think he's an absolute stinker to do that to her.
- It may not have received as much coverage as the voluntary voting proposal, but one recommendation in yesterday's report of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters is an absolute stinker.
- Any list of bad sequels that does not list Highlander II as the all-time el-supremo undisputed champ of a stinking stinkeroo of a stinker is not the pixels used to post it. EW's Top 25 Worst Sequels
- Hillary's campaign was a stinkeroo, tactically and strategically, from beginning to end. Obama Shifting Gears For General Election, Recruiting Hillary Staffers
- Yet it earned only just under $52 million at the domestic box office, $15 million of which over its opening weekend, arguably because both critics and the word of mouth declared this Round Table adventure to be a stinker.
- For every great game released this year there has been a real high-profile stinker to cancel it out.