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Meaning of "reekingly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REEKINGLY

reekingly  [ˈriːkɪŋlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REEKINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Reekingly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES REEKINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

reekingly

Odor

An odor or odour or fragrance is caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds, generally at a very low concentration, that humans or other animals perceive by the sense of olfaction. Odors are also commonly called scents, which can refer to both pleasant and unpleasant odors. The terms fragrance and aroma are used primarily by the food and cosmetic industry to describe a pleasant odor, and are sometimes used to refer to perfumes. In contrast, malodor, stench, reek, and stink are used specifically to describe unpleasant odor. In the United Kingdom, odour refers to scents in general. In the United States, odor has a more negative connotation, such as smell, stench or stink, while scent or aroma are used for pleasant smells.

Definition of reekingly in the English dictionary

The definition of reekingly in the dictionary is in a manner that smells strongly and offensively.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REEKINGLY


achingly
ˈeɪkɪŋlɪ
breathtakingly
ˈbrɛθteɪkɪŋlɪ
creakingly
ˈkriːkɪŋlɪ
half-jokingly
ˌhɑːfˈdʒəʊkɪŋlɪ
heartbreakingly
ˈhɑːtˌbreɪkɪŋlɪ
jerkingly
ˈdʒɜːkɪŋlɪ
jokingly
ˈdʒəʊkɪŋlɪ
kingly
ˈkɪŋlɪ
lurkingly
ˈlɜːkɪŋlɪ
mockingly
ˈmɒkɪŋlɪ
painstakingly
ˈpeɪnzteɪkɪŋlɪ
rebukingly
rɪˈbjuːkɪŋlɪ
shockingly
ˈʃɒkɪŋlɪ
shriekingly
ˈʃriːkɪŋlɪ
smirkingly
ˈsmɜːkɪŋlɪ
sneakingly
ˈsniːkɪŋlɪ
speakingly
ˈspiːkɪŋlɪ
squeakingly
ˈskwiːkɪŋlɪ
strikingly
ˈstraɪkɪŋlɪ
unthinkingly
ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REEKINGLY

reef knot
reef point
reefable
reefer
reefing jacket
reefy
reeject
reek
reeker
reeking
reeky
reel
reel holder
reel man
reel of three
reel off
reel-fed
reel-to-reel
reelable
reeler

WORDS THAT END LIKE REEKINGLY

accordingly
amazingly
astonishingly
correspondingly
exceedingly
increasingly
interestingly
irritatingly
knowingly
livingly
lovingly
overwhelmingly
seemingly
sickeningly
singly
sparingly
strongly
stunningly
surprisingly
unknowingly
willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of reekingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «reekingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REEKINGLY

Find out the translation of reekingly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of reekingly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «reekingly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

reekingly
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reekingly
570 millions of speakers

English

reekingly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

reekingly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

reekingly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

reekingly
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

reekingly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

reekingly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

reekingly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersungguh-sungguh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

reekingly
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

reekingly
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

reekingly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Reekingly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

reekingly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

reekingly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Reekingly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

reekingly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

reekingly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

reekingly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

reekingly
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

reekingly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

reekingly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

reekingly
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

reekingly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

reekingly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of reekingly

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REEKINGLY»

The term «reekingly» is used very little and occupies the 173.347 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of reekingly
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «reekingly».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REEKINGLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «reekingly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «reekingly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about reekingly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REEKINGLY»

Discover the use of reekingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to reekingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Jikaida Cycle: The Saga of Dray Prescot omnibus #6
I caught a glimpse of a hard bright yellow tuft of feathers vibrating ahead of the helmet beneath them, and I was out of the chair and back into the shadows of the shop past the counter, pressing up against a reekingly oily kax wrapped about a  ...
Alan Burt Akers, 2009
2
My Father, His Son
Beneath us are jagged declivities. This is Victoria Road, a glistening black tendril along the sea. Red, weathered, crumbling mountains, yellow mud that is cracked and reekingly dry. The narrow strip of sand far down there, the dizzying steeps.
Reidar Jonsson, 1993
3
Millstone
Alex's sense of smell was instantly assaulted by a mixture of decaying flesh and reekingly foul farts. King's rotting back was to the elevator. He was striking the blunt side of his bowie knife's blade against a brass feed pipe for the floor's ...
L. E. Bennett, 2009
4
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... pervades every scene in the vast city. The sun is shining brightly and hotly over the capital : there is a flood of light and heavenly love and brightness poured down upon the streets ; but it only calls up still more reekingly to heaven the vapour ...
‎1848
5
The Law of the Land
Here is the reekingly rich soil of the great Delta - that name not meaning the wide marshes of the actual mouth of the Mississippi, but the fat accumulated soil of centuries caged in by that long, incurving dam of the hills which, far inland from the ...
Emerson Hough, 1stworld Library, 2005
6
Abraham Lincoln
No treason was ever so repulsively foul, so reekingly corrupt. For its great leaders , the block and the halter ; for its chieftains, military and civic, of the second class, perpetual banishment with confiscation of their goods, for all who have ...
Freysteinn Gunnarsson, Nina Brown Baker
7
The Beginning of Wisdom
Hats like fruit-salad and hats like painted bird-cages, long chilly hats that rest the eyes like shade after hard reading, little round swearing parrots of hats, as reekingly alive as tropic sunlight. Hats of every shade from pistachio to flamingo ...
Stephen Vincent Benet, 2005
8
The White Linen Nurse
Just for an instant the Senior Surgeon's narrowing eyes probed mercilessly into the reekingly false little smile. Then altogether brutally he shrugged his shoulders . "I don't care where in blazes you sit!" he muttered, and went on into the house.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, 2012
9
Hunger
Quilts and dolls and reekingly sweet pot pourri. She bought a quilt from Merle. Hand made in China. She bought a Mexican rug at Herb's Antiques 'n' Stuff. She bought a four place table setting at Walmart and a plastic storage box for baby stuff ...
Helen E. Harding
10
Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer's ...
Had it not been so reekingly hot, these green meads would have been our halting-place for some time, for we were really enchanted by such a homely and congenial locality — the favourite resort of the skylark, whose numbers and endless ...
George Fleming, 1863

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REEKINGLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term reekingly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Orson Welles: The Great Disruptor
Welles is barely recognisable as the crippled and reekingly corrupt cop Hank Quinlan, a sweating gargoyle sunk in Stygian shadow. The setting, a Mexican ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
2
Coalition's backdown on repeal of section 18c is shameful
... among most of the Human Rights Commission (that body that ought to be wound up tomorrow for its reekingly partisan agenda), among whole swathes of the ... «The Australian, Sep 14»
3
What's the Best Reality Show Ever? Semifinals: Survivor vs …
(Also, it's hard to think of sex when you are reekingly filthy.) Survivor was simply more refined television from start to finish. Probst's closing line, “the tribe has ... «Vulture, Mar 14»
4
Big School, BBC One
Meanwhile her luxuriant mane of red hair and ladette-ish aura is triggering havoc among Greybridge's pitiful male specimens, not least the reekingly unsavoury ... «The Arts Desk, Aug 13»
5
Has Apple gone soft? Tim Cook, say it ain't so
Well, there's the fact that Apple is moving a little Mac production to the U.S. How reekingly touch-feely. Then there's the terribly wussy notion that Apple is to give ... «CNET, Dec 12»
6
Fiction: Histories in a spin
Set in Paris, in the same era, Andrew Miller's Pure (Sceptre, £17.99) also showed reason and enlightenment entwined with cruelty and corruption, in a reekingly ... «The Independent, Nov 11»
7
Hidden, BBC One
Gina is an expensive lawyer, hired by one of Harry's old underworld acquaintances, Steven Quirke (a reekingly squalid Paul Ritter). Quirke has been charged ... «The Arts Desk, Oct 11»

REFERENCE
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