halitosic

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 13 16:05:32 UTC 2011

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Halitosis is such a commonly known word that one is amazed not to find the
corresponding adj. "halitosic" in either MW11 or OED.

Hundreds of raw Googlits.  What other word would do?

JL

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