Definition of "malodor" []

• A bad odor; a stench. See Synonyms at stench. (noun)

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• "By the age of 5, his talent for sniffing out every kind of malodor is already evident, but nothing prepares him for what he encounters after being sold as an apprentice to a tannery run by a vicious brute replete with boils."
• "Signs of an infection are redness, swelling, malodor and/or pus yellowish colored drainage."
• "I'd smelled that malodor of skunk in the air, just a hint of it, around suppertime."