Richard Corliss

In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.

American Writer

Amanda Foreman

Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but devoid of the ambition or calculation required to survive in the fetid atmosphere of the French court. In many ways, her character was not unlike that of Mary, Queen of Scots.

British Historian

Elvis Mitchell

Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.

American Critic

Seth Shostak

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.

American Scientist

Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.

Used to express strong dislike or disgust due to an unpleasant odor.

Negative Description

Commonly used when something is decomposing or rotting, like food or organic matter.

Describing Decay

Evokes a strong sensory response, making it effective in vivid storytelling or descriptions.

Sensory Imagery

In a figurative sense, can suggest an atmosphere filled with anger or bitterness.

Implying Tension

Useful for conveying a mood or feeling in a place, often negative or uncomfortable.

Emotional Atmosphere

Sometimes used with exaggeration to emphasize a particularly bad situation or environment.

Hyperbolic Impact

 in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness. The air was fetid, the room a shambles. Steve, both a lawyer and a psychologist, has treated many patients with severe mental illness, and to this day he'll say I was as bad as any he had ever seen. 'Hi,' I said, and then I returned to the couch,

A tale of mental illness...

 middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness the air was fetid the room of shambles Steve both a lawyer and a psychologist has treated many patients with severe mental illness and to this day he'll say I was bad as bad as any he had ever seen hi I said and then I returned to the

 means the start of a stinking wet filthy of all the foul tasks no scene must do few are worse than washing the animal skins and there's no other way to do it into climb right into the tub a fetid sewer of animal hides flesh hair and

Fetid