From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishputridpu‧trid /ˈpjuːtrɪd/ adjective 1 HBdead animals, plants etc that are putrid are decaying and smell very bad the putrid smells from the slaughterhouses2 informalUNPLEASANT very unpleasant a putrid green colour
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putrid• The air settled for sundown, the house again putrid and airless.• Poisoned wells, putrid carcases slung over the walls.• Random flashes of light: putrid green, violent orange, hellish red, shot through the swarming darkness.• It is a putrid pink colour.• a putrid smell• Just another scheme from the putrid sore of the northwest.• Gao Ma knew that the lane beyond the southern wall dead-ended at a noodle mill alongside a ditch of putrid stagnant water.Origin putrid (1400-1500) Latin putridus, from putrere “to have decayed”, from puter, putris “decayed” 