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Meanings of miasmic in English
Of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution.
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Examples for "mephitic"
Examples for "mephitic"
1
Evidently the author had himself breathed the mephitic air of eighteenth-century skepticism.
2
The air was warm and charged with a pungent, almost mephitic odor.
3
The caverns in mountains of gypsum often contain mephitic emanations and deleterious gases.
4
He could not breathe because of the mephitic gases of imperialism and militarism.
5
Or would the earth be uninhabitable from the mephitic products of universal decay?
Usage of miasmic in English
1
He will measure my words and calculate that I am miasmic.
2
The goblet of wine left behind a miasmic trail, like a miniature comet.
3
She is mired in the miasmic swamp I identify with Dionysus.
4
It was close beside a spring that gave out a faint, miasmic odor.
5
The mists arising from earth are only miasmic vapours after all!
6
This open space was encircled by tall pines almost bare from age and miasmic air.
7
Phipps awoke sputtering and coughing a few minutes later, his lungs burning with foul miasmic fumes.
8
It sneaks out behind him like miasmic botty burp and the wicket keeper takes the catch.
9
He watched the creatures emerge from the train, their forms loosening into miasmic coils of black.
10
A miasmic wind hardly stirred them.
11
From childhood she had been brought up on the fringe of that underworld the atmosphere of which is miasmic.
12
The New Yorker, November 7, 1983 P. 39 World events have recently developed a miasmic quality.
13
As we shall see, the Dionysian is liquid nature, a miasmic swamp whose prototype is the still pond of the womb.
14
It was the aim of the Teaching to let as much of this miasmic stuff out to the surface as possible.
15
Drusus liked the prospect of a halt on these swampy, miasmic fields little enough, But again the proconsul was all resources.
16
A red sun near its dropping, drew up the miasmic vapours from the mangrove-fringed reaches stretching on either side of the wharf.
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Miasmic through the time