smelly vs stinking

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. 

stinking

adj
  • Having a pungent smell. 

  • An intensifier, a hypallage. 

  • Very bad and undesirable. 

noun
  • The emission of a foul smell. 

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