2[only before noun] spokenANGRY used to emphasize what you are saying when you are angry 令人讨厌的〔生气时用以加强语气〕
I hate this stinking boring job!
我恨这讨厌的无聊工作!
3[only before noun] especially British EnglishBrE informalUNPLEASANT very unpleasant 讨厌的,糟糕的
I’ve got a stinking cold.
我感冒非常严重。
4.stinking letterBritish EnglishBrE informalCOMPLAIN an angryletter in which you complain very strongly about something 言辞激烈的投诉信
Examples from the Corpus
stinking• With luck, she might be buried for ever under the wetnewspapers, stinking food remnants and empty cornflake packets.• The yards were full of stinkinggarbage cans, and untidy lines of washing.• a dump full of stinking garbage• He pointed to the stinkinghole that we were to use as a toilet.• I represent areas with stinking housing estates.• The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris.• You can not build a fair system on that stinkingswamp of menace and malice and neglect.• I don't want to watch that stinkingTV show.• You'd wed your daughter to a stinkingViking!• But they'd had men dragging those stinking waters for twenty-four hours and they'd come up with nothing.• He could hardly ease himself free from the great stinkingweight.
stinking2adverbadv informal
1.stinking rich informalextremely rich – used especially when you think this is unfair 十分富有的,非常有钱的〔尤用于表示这是不公平的〕