Crossword-Solution: FETIDNESS 9 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

His instinct perceived the fetidness of poverty, but no longer ferreted out the deeper evils in pride and sensuality.

Whether it was that his damp clothes exhaled a fetid odor, or that he had in his normal condition the “poor smell” which belongs to Parisian tenements, just as offices, sacristies, and hospitals have their own peculiar and rancid fetidness, of which no words can give the least idea, or whether some other reason affected them, those in the vicinity of this man immediately moved away and left him alone.

Read as an example of modern fetidness, in the last number of the Vie Parisienne, the article on Marion Delorme.

Not even the thud of its heavy body on the sand disturbed him, but an hour later he heard another warning--a rasping sound--and through the stench of the ancient swamp he smelled a fetidness that meant danger.

Martial, III., 96: “You lick my mistress, but you do not enter her; yet you boast yourself adulterer and copulator!” Hence the _cunnilingues_ took no less care than the _fellators_ to hide the fetidness of their breath by means of essences and perfumes, Martial, VI., 55: “Always scented with cassia and cinnamon, and your skin darkened with perfumes from the Phœnix’ nest, you reek of the leaden jars of Nicerotus’ shop.