Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as miasmatic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Filled with miasma; containing noxious vapors.
  • adjective Composed of or resembling vapors.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective filled with vapor
  • adjective of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution

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Examples

  • The very idea that sex is healthy and can be engaged in ethically and morally between consenting adults is an unspoken anathema to Catholicism (and, in more perverse and diluted forms, throughout protestant christianity where, because there is no cult of Mary, the subject has been more or less disregarded except as the kind of miasmic opprobrium sex has acquired through fractured moralistic denials of pleasure in general).

    Dangerous Intersection Mark Tiedemann 2010

  • Films move you through that same kind of miasmic time.

    An Author Retraces His Steps Barbara Chai 2011

  • Not even pariah states like Iran do … not even flaky ‘outlaw’ states like North Korea … not even disputably recognized miasmic statiods like (so-called) ‘Palestine’ …

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » How Is This Different From Citizens United 2010

  • Question: When election rhetoric has been overrun by John Birch quacks, right-wing conspiracy burlesque, and xenophobic mobs -- how can a governing party craft a closing message sharp enough to cut through the miasmic mess and motivate the liberal base?

    Jeffrey Feldman: "President Palin": A Battle Cry -- For Dems? Jeffrey Feldman 2010

  • One, they allow one to mark a space in them so you're not in an ever miasmic present of whatever screen you're on, but you have something that has an architecture and a structure, as does "Maus."

    An Author Retraces His Steps Barbara Chai 2011

  • These range from the arcane and baffling to walks and cycle rides aimed at opening up fresh perspectives of the miasmic city.

    Best of the London Festival of Architecture 2010

  • Rather, this would-be dramatic display to Mr. Nyman's miasmic music looked like a sampler of aimless exercises for Mr. Gomes's upper body.

    Those Mighty Men in Tights Robert Greskovic 2010

  • Rather, this would-be dramatic display to Mr. Nyman's miasmic music looked like a sampler of aimless exercises for Mr. Gomes's upper body.

    Those Mighty Men in Tights Robert Greskovic 2010

  • Without AC, an office in August is a miasmic hell, calling for "Shorter summer business hours and month-long closings," and yes, even "siestas."

    The Big Chill: Giving AC the Cold Shoulder 2010

  • An endless miasmic spool of road and headlights, monotonous and hypnotic.

    Carne Ross: Fleeing the Volcano 2010

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