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Meanings of miasmic in English
Of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution.
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Examples for "vaporous"
Examples for "vaporous"
1
On the side above the woods, the sky was dark and vaporous.
2
A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
3
If they were both vaporous, there would be a gradation between them.
4
The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects.
5
The Magician's aura immediately snapped alight, sizzling yellow and vaporous around him.
1
The miasmal taint of the ominously proliferating vegetation was soon pervading the ship, spreading demoralization everywhere.
2
Jem, sitting beside him, was squint-eyed, miasmal, and mute, as he always was in the morning.
3
Some miasmal gust must have swept by, something born of want that scattered germs of anger and vengeance.
4
No doubt it is still down the well- Iknowthere was something wrong with the sunlight I saw above the miasmal brink.
5
No doubt it is still down the well- Iknowthere was something wrong with the sunlight I saw above that miasmal brink.
1
But his arguments were vapourous enough and made little impression on Barneveld.
2
Her geometry had been fluid, or rather, vapourous, and had floated away, unthought of and unregretted.
3
Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.
4
I had reached, as it were, a higher level of that mountainous and vapourous visions, the heaven of a higher levity.
5
We were in July now, and misty, vapourous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals.
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.
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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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