miasmic
Example Sentences
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If Musk continues down this road, Twitter won’t be a beacon of free speech, but a miasmic, malodorous swamp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
Ms. Ruffin used to hate it: the miasmic sea of people clogging Sixth Avenue and making a smelly hell of her morning walk to work at Rockefeller Center.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2020
Heavy with sinister 1980s electropop — the perfect underlay to his vivid miasmic imagery — it’s also the Weeknd’s most jaded record.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2020
What finally emerges from cosmic horror’s miasmic evolution over the course of the 20th century is a literary concept that is equal parts genre and philosophy, cerebral and primordial.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2013
There was a pestilential air about, a miasmic, brooding fog thickened by innumerable clouds of mosquitoes.
From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
