Green’s Dictionary of Slang

disgusting, contemptible.

1928		M. Bodenheim Georgie May 167: A bohn hahlot but with nothing undahhanded oah skunky about her.
1935		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 483: If he only hadn’t been [...] bumming from school to hang around with skunky Weary Reilley.
1943		M. Constiner ‘The Turkey Buzzard Blues’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 282: Yo’re a durn, skunky spy.
1966		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 118: You go back to your cell with a uplifted heart, / thinkin’ that skunky-assed whore out there tryin’ to do her part.
1973		C. Cussler Mediterranean Caper/Mayday! (1985) 180: Could even be a skunky bottle of beer.
1977		R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 640: I could smell it in my skunky armpits and foul breath.
2012		M. Lacher On the Bro’d 216: ‘The Natty cases were sorta warm and I thought it might be skunky’.