Today's Word "fetid"
Having an offensive smell
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fetid \FET-id; FEE-tid\ (adjective) - Having an offensive smell; stinking.
"When Savigny returned to his fetid sty of a hutch, he found a veritable pandemonium, a huddle of men stringing their hammocks against every available hook on the beams." -- Arabella Edge, 'The God of Spring'
Fetid derives from Latin fetidus, from fetere, "to stink."