putrid

putrid
    adj 1: of or relating to or attended by putrefaction; "putrid
           decomposition"
    2: in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor;
       "horrible like raw and putrid flesh"- Somerset Maugham
    3: morally corrupt or evil; "the putrid atmosphere of the court"
    

Putrid \Pu"trid\, a. [L. putridus, fr. putrere to be rotten, fr.
   puter, or putris, rotten, fr. putere to stink, to be rotten:
   cf. F. putride. See {Pus}, {Foul}, a.]
   1. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; --
      said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See
      {Putrefaction}.
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   2. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or
      vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
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   {Putrid fever} (Med.), typhus fever; -- so called from the
      decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and
      diseased textures of the body.

   {Putrid sore throat} (Med.), a gangrenous inflammation of the
      fauces and pharynx.
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122 Moby Thesaurus words for "putrid":
      bad, bad-smelling, barfy, bum, cankered, carious, cheesy, corrupt,
      crappy, creepy, crummy, decayed, decaying, decomposed, decomposing,
      degenerate, depraved, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent,
      festering, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flyblown, foul, frowsty,
      frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous,
      gloppy, godawful, gone bad, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gunky,
      hairy, high, icky, ill-smelling, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic,
      miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, mortified, mouldy,
      mucky, musty, nasty, nauseating, necrosed, necrotic, nefarious,
      nidorous, noisome, noxious, odious, odorous, offensive, olid,
      ordurous, peccant, perverse, puky, punk, putrefied, putrescent,
      rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive,
      rotten, rotting, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slabby, slimy,
      sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smellful, smelling, smelly,
      sphacelated, spoiled, spoilt, sposhy, stenchy, stinking, stinky,
      strong, stuffy, sulfurous, suppurating, suppurative, tainted,
      ulcerated, unhealthy, vicious, vile, villainous, vomity, wormy,
      yecchy