sewery

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a sewer.

Examples

“I will only add⟳ here one word of advice to my readers: never tolerate a sewery smell⟳ in any part of your house: you know⟳ not to what it may lead⟳.”

“Also how he saw⟳ a “brooke,” which was doubtless in his time a pretty little river, but which is now a sewery looking stream that tries to atone for its shallowness and narrowness by its thickness.”

“The litter-strewn mud when the tide was out somehow offended them much less than the sewery water when it was up.”

“Once King James risked the crown on a voyage beneath the sewery river.”

“He woke outside on the grass, on his stomach, his nostrils filled with an acid, sewery smell⟳, and something was on top of him, crushing him, being lifted off for a second, then crushing him again.”

““These aren’t sewer-pipes, anyway,” Stan said from behind them. “You can tell⟳ by that smell⟳. It’s bad, but it’s not a sewery smell⟳.””

“Grandma’s was crowded and smelled of potpourri sachets and Christmassy dusting powder and the faint sewery smell⟳ from the bathroom it led to.”

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