Sentence:  "Good God, what nonsense!" Rusanov spat the words out, with a hiss. "It's time someone changed the record. What a moral! It <WSD>stinks to high heaven</WSD>, it's quite alien to us. What does it say there that men live by?" 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of a person or situation: to be highly ethically dubious; also, of a person: to be very incompetent.