Adjective: ill-scented
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ill-scented |
| Superlative | most ill-scented |
Sample Sentences
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By an accurate dissection, which was made by Dr. Mitchell, it has been found, that this ill-scented fluid is entirely distinct from the urine. [1807, James Mease, M.D., A Geological Account of the United States, Comprehending a Short Description of Their Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions, Antiquities and Curiosities, page 322:]
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Much-branched and ill-scented annual, leafy up to the subsessile or short-pedunculate small heads: [1885, John Merle Coulter, Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain Region From New Mexico to the British Boundary, page 197:]
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When fresh they are ill-scented and nauseating, but later they are not so disagreeable. [1889, United States, Division of Botany, Section of Plant Pathology, Section of Vegetable Pathology, “Potato Family (Solanaceae)”, in Department Of Agriculture, Botanical Division, Bulletin No. 10, page 50:]
Adjectives inflected like ill-scented
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From ill + scented.