stinkingness

Noun

1. The quality of being stinking.
   • Its sweetness cuts the gall-bitter taste of defeat which, to the palate, is as the stinkingness to the nose of the pus-running wounds of soldiers. - 1950, Saturday Review of Literature, volume 33, number 2, page 23:
   • Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is. - 1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Janet P. Morgan, The Backbench Diaries...