"sewery" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From sewer + -y.",
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      "form": "more sewery",
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          "ref": "1872 November 1, Philalethes, “Sanitary Matters. Sewer Gases Neutralized and Utilized.”, in Dr. Ruddock, editor, The Homœopathic World: A Monthly Magazine of Medical News, Literature, Cases from Practice, Social and Sanatory Science, and Correspondence, volume VII, London: Jarrold and Sons, […]. The Homœopathic Publishing Company, […], page 253, columns 1–2",
          "text": "I will only add here one word of advice to my readers: never tolerate a sewery smell in any part of your house: you know not to what it may lead.",
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        {
          "ref": "1900, Thomas Anderton, A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham, page 5",
          "text": "Also how he saw a “brooke,” which was doubtless in his time a pretty little river, but which is now a sewery looking stream that tries to atone for its shallowness and narrowness by its thickness.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica, London: Chatto & Windus, page 258",
          "text": "The litter-strewn mud when the tide was out somehow offended them much less than the sewery water when it was up.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, James Dugan, Man under the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 80",
          "text": "Once King James risked the crown on a voyage beneath the sewery river.",
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        {
          "ref": "1970, Partisan Review, page 365",
          "text": "He woke outside on the grass, on his stomach, his nostrils filled with an acid, sewery smell, and something was on top of him, crushing him, being lifted off for a second, then crushing him again.",
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        {
          "ref": "1986, Stephen King, It, Pocket Books, published 2016, page 1328",
          "text": "“These aren’t sewer-pipes, anyway,” Stan said from behind them. “You can tell by that smell. It’s bad, but it’s not a sewery smell.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "1990, Susan Sullivan Saiter, Cheerleaders Can’t Afford to Be Nice, Donald I. Fine, Inc., page 122",
          "text": "Grandma’s was crowded and smelled of potpourri sachets and Christmassy dusting powder and the faint sewery smell from the bathroom it led to.",
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        }
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a sewer."
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          "ref": "1872 November 1, Philalethes, “Sanitary Matters. Sewer Gases Neutralized and Utilized.”, in Dr. Ruddock, editor, The Homœopathic World: A Monthly Magazine of Medical News, Literature, Cases from Practice, Social and Sanatory Science, and Correspondence, volume VII, London: Jarrold and Sons, […]. The Homœopathic Publishing Company, […], page 253, columns 1–2",
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          "ref": "1900, Thomas Anderton, A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham, page 5",
          "text": "Also how he saw a “brooke,” which was doubtless in his time a pretty little river, but which is now a sewery looking stream that tries to atone for its shallowness and narrowness by its thickness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica, London: Chatto & Windus, page 258",
          "text": "The litter-strewn mud when the tide was out somehow offended them much less than the sewery water when it was up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Once King James risked the crown on a voyage beneath the sewery river.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1970, Partisan Review, page 365",
          "text": "He woke outside on the grass, on his stomach, his nostrils filled with an acid, sewery smell, and something was on top of him, crushing him, being lifted off for a second, then crushing him again.",
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