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stinker

1. n. an unpleasant or wicked person. Jerry is a real stinker. Look what he did!
2. n. a serious problem. This whole business is a real stinker.
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Lancaster said Stinkers and Razzies are not so much about taking pot shots at run-of-the-mill bad movies as they are about deflating those that fail to meet great expectations.
What might the givers of the Raspberries and Stinkers do to draw more attention to their awards?
OSCAR NODS THEY AIN'T RAZZIES CRUCIFY `GIGLI' AND `CAT,' WHILE STINKERS OFFER NO BOUQUETS
They are frontrunners in the Golden Raspberry and Bad Cinema Stinkers line-ups.
Carey is up for worst actress and song, Loverboy, from her romantic flop Glitter in the Stinkers.
All that glitters is not gold
But not many of Smart's horses have been running stinkers this winter.
The problem with him is that you don't know when his day is-I could bring him back next week for a similar race and he'd run a stinker.
WOLVERHAMPTON: Oat surprises as he shows better side
Among them were two original works that Leonard himself calls stinkers - a Charles Bronson revenge picture, ``Mr.
DUTCH TREAT; ELMORE LEONARD'S EASY STYLE, MISFIT CHARACTERS COMING ACROSS
Johnston said: "He'd run some stinkers on soft ground last year and we were very wary about the ground today and the trip, but there's nothing else to run him in.
Greyhound Racing: DOG CARDS
Digital Coast ``isn't bad, compared to some of the others, which were real stinkers,'' said Ed Pope, president of the biomed firm Matech in Westlake Village.
DIGITAL COAST MAY WORK AS HIGH-TECH SLOGAN
And now for the award nominations nobody wants: The organization behind the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards has announced the short-list for its 20th annual contest, and the worst-picture contenders are ``Batman & Robin,'' ``The Fifth Element,'' ``Lost Highway,'' ``The Postman'' and ``Starship Troopers.
FILM/SNEAK PEEK : TO SEE KING OF BIG SCREEN, HEAD TO UNIVERSAL
Before a single football was snapped, I declared that although Seattle was everybody's ``sexy pick'' for 1997, I still saw the Seahawks ``as 7-9 stinkers.
NO DOME TEAM WILL REIGN IN SUPER BOWL
I like a good movie as much as the next guy, but if you add up all the movies you've seen this year, the stinkers outnumber the good ones three or four to one, easy.
HOORAY FOR WHAT? ALL THOSE STINKERS WE PAID $7.50 TO SIT THROUGH IN THE THEATER : CINEMATIC REBEL REFUSES TO BE TAKEN HOSTAGE
There are many good people out there, but always one or two stinkers who spoil everything.
`WE'LL GIVE TO ANYBODY, AS LONG AS THEY NEED IT, OR CAN USE IT TO HELP RAISE FUNDS' : GROUP NOURISHES BODIES, SELF-IMAGES
Corine's nose, when she raced in the girl-skunk category, led her right down the Cobleskill Sunshine Fair's L'il Stinkers Drag Racing race track.
NO ONE WILL SAY WHO'S GETTING SKUNKED HERE
The Spice Girls' 1997 stinker was the top flop for one in five film fans quizzed by MSN Movies.
TOSH SPICE; Girls' film voted worst ever
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