rank
adjective/ræŋk/
/ræŋk/
- having a strong unpleasant smell
- The house was full of the rank smell of urine.
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- (informal) very unpleasant
- I think the whole situation's pretty rank.
- [only before noun] used to emphasize a particular quality, state, etc.
- an example of rank stupidity/hypocrisy
- The winning horse was a rank outsider.
- She made the other players look like rank amateurs.
- (of plants, etc.) growing too thickly
- an area overgrown with rank grass and nettles
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