🇬🇧 Smelly meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Smelly means something gives off a strong stink or bad odor that makes you want to cover your nose or move away.

My shoes got so smelly that my mom asked them politely to leave the house forever.

The cafeteria’s smelly mystery stew was probably just all the leftovers having a meeting.

Grandpa’s smelly fishing boots could probably catch fish just by knocking them out with the odor.

My brother’s room is so smelly that we’re thinking of renting it out as a haunted house.

Skunks are famous for being extremely smelly; they can spray a stink that’s strong enough for people to smell from over half a kilometer away.

A boy opened a smelly bag. The smelly fish inside made him gag. He dropped the smelly bag on the floor; smelly air filled the tiny room. He ran outside, fanning the smelly air, and laughed when a cat sniffed and ran. He opened a window and breathed fresh air.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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