Fetid

According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the word fetid is identified as a adjective. It means “having a heavy offensive smell”. On page 106 of “The Turbid Ebb and Flow of Misery”, it states,”There were then approximately ten thousand apartments in New York into which no sun ray penetrated directly; such windows as they had opened only on a narrow court from which rose fetid odors.” The word fetid was used to describe the living conditions they were in and how the garbage was never cleaned which led to bad odors.