dreadful vs smelly

dreadful

adj
  • Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier). 

  • Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky. 

noun
  • A shocking or sensational crime. 

  • A journal or broadsheet printing such reports. 

  • A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style. 

adv
  • Dreadfully. 

smelly

adj
  • Having a bad smell. 

  • Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell. 

  • Having a quality that arouses suspicion. 

noun
  • a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives. 

How often have the words dreadful and smelly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )