| In the wards, children are crowded two and three in a bed in airless rooms, foetid with the smell of kerosene heaters. |
| Yet the fringes of eternity are polluted with nitrates and blooms of foetid algae. |
| Their clothes and their letters reek with the foetid secretion of the musk deer. |
| The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds. |
| She lived and worked night after night in stinking tenements and foetid shelters packed with unwashed humans. |
| Light was blocked out, rubbish and pollution accumulated and the scheme soon descended into a foetid, disease-ridden mass of squalor and degradation. |
