fetid (also foetid)
fet-id / fĕt-ĭd, fē-tĭd
adjective 1. having a terrible, offensive smell; stinking; foul One wondered about this, as also about the swarms of flies which hung about the scene, literally blackening the air, and the strange, fetid odor which assailed one's nostrils, a ghastly odor, of all the dead things of the universe. From “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, 1878 - 1968