Meaning

• To have a strong bad smell.

• To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

  "That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end."

• To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.

  "Something stinks about the politician's excuses."

• To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

Meaning

• Having a pungent smell.

• Very bad and undesirable.

  "Despite leading the way for years, the new model is really stinking."

• An intensifier, a minced oath.

  "We don’t need your stinking sympathy."