Michael Eric Dyson

When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.

American Author

Jack Monroe

Yet there is clearly something about bold, neurodivergent women and girls that prompts powerful men to scrape the sides of their own putrid barrels of opinion to attack this 'terrifying' otherness.

British Journalist

Frank Miller

Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

American Artist

Tony Todd

I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.

American Actor

Jef I. Richards

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

American Educator

Hilton Als

Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

American Writer

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Scottish Scientist

Emphasizes an extremely unpleasant and overpowering smell, worse than just 'bad'.

Strong Stench

Use 'putrid' to describe smells that provoke a strong physical reaction, like gagging.

Negative Reaction

'Putrid' often brings to mind images of decay, such as rotting food or death.

Imagery of Decay

'Putrid' is very harsh and conveys extreme dislike or disgust when describing non-olfactory situations.

Extremely Negative

Common in informal language when exaggerating negative opinions about quality.

Informal Speech

Reflects a more intense level of criticism than 'bad', suggesting something is extremely distasteful.

Intensity of Critique

Indicates that something is not only rotten physically, but also unsafe to consume or use.

Physical State

May imply visual changes associated with rot, like discoloration or oozing.

Visual Aspect

 eggs and then they like to have a great time in them so pulses that smell out to get insects in it hopefully already have pollen on them from a previous plant that was in the male cycle somewhere in the area so they come in the heat generates the smell it's just overwhelmingly wonderful for them the plant only releases the putrid smell for two nights

The Corpse Flower:...

 it's the most contaminated river in the world and what is this situation with this water. How bad is it?' So, we brought some water testing devices. This is actually in front of Agra, the Taj-- in Agra in front of the Taj Mahal. Many people maybe some of you have been to the Taj Mahal, but nobody goes out here. This is the most putrid river

Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...

 and then he started to smell really, really bad. So bad that when he got in a room with the doctors and the nurses, they couldn't stand being in the room with him. It was intolerable. They tried every drug, every other treatment they could think of. After a year, he still smelled putrid. After two years, still smelled putrid.

Marc Abrahams: A science...

 too weak to run, too expensive to shoot, how they would march them, hands raised, rifles at their backs, into the fire? How their walking sticks kept the flames alive? It feels too harsh for a bundle of wires and an audience to swallow. Too relentless, like the valley that filled with the putrid smoke of our deaths.

A young poet tells the...

 and yellow fever smells like the inside of a butcher shop, like raw meat. And in fact, when you look at the sort of words that are used to describe diseases, you tend to find these "rotting," "foul," "putrid" or "pungent."

How we're using dogs to...

 was they enclosed themselves in an information bubble. We've heard of fake news, yeah? Well, this shocked every group that I studied had some kind of a fake news slogan. French communists called it the "putrid press."

How do daily habits lead...

 and formed hard brown clumps. The corpse wasn't putrid, but it didn't exactly smell good, either. So, priests poured tree resin over the body to seal it, massaged it with a waxy mixture that included cedar oil,

How to make a mummy -...

 invasion is underway staff at hotels watch nervously for a food that is putrid wretched and loved by millions meet the durian fruit their smell is hard to describe

Funky Smelling Fruit PIPE...

 argument never have I consumed such quantities of putrid coffee it's no wonder that wikileak reveals avold brains the process wasn't easy the United

Advocating for gender...

 during the Great Plague many thousands died and doctors wore masks they thought would protect them from the putrid air