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  • s  having an offensive rancid odor

  • Wedding parcels from Tiffany's were piled side by side with bundled gifts of rank-smelling tiger and leopard skins.
  • So touchy are they that when a fox or a weasel, probably mistaking the rank-smelling shrew for a field mouse, lays a predatory paw on it, the shrew usually expires from shock.
  • Fishermen and farmers across central and eastern Europe used nets and pitchforks to land more than 100 tons of dead bream, carp, pike and other species from the rank-smelling waters.
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  • Christopher Meloni hits comedic stride in ‘Surviving Jack’
    Midseason sitcoms get a bad rap. Viewers regard them with suspicion, as if they’ve found something old and spotted and rank-smelling in the back of the fridge, and with good reason. Networks often use this time of year to burn off shows they’ve had second thoughts about. “Surviving Jack” deserves a shot.
    March 27, 2014 - Boston Herald

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