rancid• The oats looked firm and fresh, but were rancid.• His mouth felt like something rancid had curled up inside and he silently cursed the demonbooze.• Woke up with a rancidheadache.• The canals have more potential than ponds that often get rancid in the heat of summer.• If he had kept his mouth shut I would still be eating rancidmeat and plotting my own way out of Paris.• I was frequently sick through being forced to drink rancidmilk that had been left standing in the playground for hours.• Swanson knows his conspiracytheories, and his portrait of Dallas, mainly rancid, saves you the trip.• It was malodorous, peculiarly rancid, sulphurous.
Originrancid
(1600-1700)Latinrancidus, from rancere“to have decayed, smell bad”