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ree king

  • v  have an element suggestive (of something)
  • v  smell badly and offensively
  • v  be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
  • v  give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.
    Marshes reeking in the sun
  • s  wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
    wiped his reeking neck
  • s  giving off a strong unpleasant smell

  • He was the Japanese national mind with all its paradoxesreeking savagery and sensitivity to beauty, frantic fanaticism and patient obedience to authority, brittle rituals and .
  • Up down the ravaged Mississippi Valley last week, at least 48,000 refugees straggled back from the hills to homes and farms reeking with flood muck.
  • A man reeking of sorghum liquor and rotten teeth sidles by, inspecting her.
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  • Julia Ward Howe in Topeka Capital Journal
    In 1870, following the Civil War, author and reformer Julia Ward Howe called on women to rise up and oppose war in all its forms: "Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us...
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in MidEastYouth.com
    As chair of the Second Islamic Summit in 1974, then Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto said: "To Jews as Jews we bear no malice; to Jews as Zionists, intoxicated with their militarism and reeking with technological arrogance, we refuse to...
  • Wesley Pruden in Kansas City Star
    What's excessive here is the president's caution,columnist Wesley Pruden wrote in The Washington Times. "The verdict was wrong, harsh and vindictive. : By saving Mr. Libby from prison but leaving in place the rest of a sentence reeking of...

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