malodorous vs smelly

malodorous

adj
  • Having a bad odor. 

  • Highly improper. 

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 malodorous and smelly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )