Meanings
- slanguncountableThe state or sphere of stinkers; contemptible behaviour.
I am only trying to explain how one may drift into stinkerdom.
1949, Clyde Brion Davis, Playtime is Over, page 1292 more examples
Boyer's try at stinkerdom was his psychopathic persecution of Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight. The closest MacMurray came to undiluted scalawaggery was as the fall guy in Double Indemnity.
1948, The Saturday Evening Post (volume 220, part 4, page 29)“Sometimes you can be such a stinker!” He blurted a guffaw. “Me?” It crossed his mind to mention the prime example of stinkerdom—her having married Matt MacDonald—but he thought better of it.
2012, William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone, Judgment Day
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