Sewage rises in rank pools from broken pipes, rubbish is piling up in repulsive, fetid heaps.

ECONOMIST: Iraq

Much of the Afghan capital's being rebuilt, but this neighborhood remains a fetid warren of ruined mud brick houses.

NPR: For Afghan Fighter the War Continues as Loyalties Shift

It sounds like the setup for a joke, as God only knows what freakish mollusks lurk in that fetid post-industrial waterway.

NEWYORKER: Littleneck

Built over a fetid Georgia swamp, Andersonville held 30, 000 miserable souls struggling to survive on meager rations of raw cornmeal and uncooked bacon.

FORBES: War Story

Whatever money there is goes to clean up the fetid Anacostia.

FORBES: In D.C., 'Skip The Bag, Save The River' Is Making Us All Sick

Manpower was the real problem, and in particular the difficulty of persuading engineers and skilled tradesmen to leave the United States to dig a ditch in a fetid tropical swamp.

ECONOMIST: American canal building

At one fetid pit in a jungle glade, he stepped gingerly onto the surface of the pool, where the solid matter in the produced water had congealed into a tarlike crust that was sturdy enough to support him.

NEWYORKER: Reversal of Fortune

The nostalgia is sometimes fetid.

ECONOMIST: England, America and the politics of dissent

The air is fetid.

ECONOMIST: A beleaguered Balkan outpost of sanity