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Keyword
smelly
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig128
Old form臭
Readings
くさ
(51%)
にお
(22%)
ぐさ
(3%)
Composed of
自
self
大
large
Used in kanji (1 in total)
嗅
sniff
Used in vocabulary (231 in total)
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; hammy (acting); over-the-top; clumsy
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
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Examples (65 in total)
Oh, wait, do I smell like animals?!
That shop's ridiculously low prices seem fishy.
Something about that man's story seems fishy.
That's such an old-guy thing.
It doesn't smell anymore, and I can breathe properly.
Your comment sounds like an old man talking.
It is neither dirty nor smelly.
Even I did think it might be a little too cheesy.
I don't like mutton because it's too gamey.
The well water is cloudy and smells.
This article reads a lot like an advertisement.
He was also not a little shocked at being called smelly.
Endless land, devoid of the scent of living things, stretches on and on.
The room smells of cigarettes.
My, that's a movie billboard positively reeking of the Shōwa era, isn't it?
A strong smell of alcohol is drifting all the way over here.
There isn't the slightest hint of romance about it.
A rich, sweet buttery smell, as if it had just been melted, is drifting through the air.
This is starting to look criminal.
But the smell clung to the back of my nose and would not go away.
We'll get rid of the bad smell at its source!
That actor's acting is so hammy I can't bear to watch.
His clothes always smell of gasoline.
The smell of gasoline is hanging in the car.
If you don't drain the blood, liver ends up tasting gamey.
Do you smell something strange?
She gets easily excited by the smell.
Do I smell funny?
This towel is smelly.
Are you saying I smell bad?
It stinks.
It's quite distinct from the smell of burning.
You stink of cigarettes.
Your socks stink.
She eyed the stranger suspiciously.
That's an awfully fishy story.
Tom always smells like cigarettes.
I smell something burning, Mother.
This milk smells funny.
This meat smells bad.
There's a funny smell in this room.
This fish has a bad smell.
The meat was giving off a terrible smell.
I smell smoke in the elevator.
I smell gas.
I smell something rotten.
"I'm soaked with sweat." "Step back. You stink!"
The smell is characteristic of garlic.
I hate the smell of garlic.
I like garlic but, because of the smell, I rarely eat it.
The room smelled of tobacco.
You smell sweaty. Go and have a shower.
Tom, you reek of alcohol. Go over there!
Tom reeked of alcohol.
The instant he opened the door, he smelt something burning.
I don't like the smell of durian.
It smells like kerosene.
This room smells musty.
There was a strong smell of cannabis in the air.
This gas gives off a bad smell.
The smell of raw fish nauseates me.
I have bad breath.
The gas gives off a strong, bad smell.
This dog has a keen sense of smell.
A bad smell permeated the room.