mephitic
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9.9
- adjective
- /məˈfɪtɪk/
- Specialized
- That and promoting the pestilential "cultural" (now an omnibus term) sewage exuding its mephitic vapors that goes by the oxymoronic term "pop culture."
Examples
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Where once I smelled lavender and salt, now I have a mephitic stench.
Fiction book (1995) -
Some of us breathe oxygen and we find the mephitic fumes of his oratory a lethal challenge to our pulmonary capabilities!
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Emerson had "no great thought or purpose in him," and his work was, in fact, "somehow mephitic."
Academic text (2010) -
The wood parts, made of obdurate walnut to resist damp and warpage, he had sawed, sanded, and fitted, inhaling the mephitic dust.
Fiction book (1997) -
Suburbia, with its neatly manicured lawns, its sinister hypocrisies, and repressed mephitic resentments, was not the place for a pure soul like his.
Fiction book (2002) -
Long and deep trenches were excavated, and the corpses were covered with lime to prevent corruption of the air and release of mephitic vapors (Instruction XXXII).
Academic text (2013) -
Painting is bred in mephitic inhalations, sticky pigments, and stubborn stains that stick to the painter's body, defiant of hard scrubs.
Academic text (2015) -
The workers wore masks to avoid the mephitic fumes emanating from the old factory.
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After the storm, the alley was filled with a mephitic smell of decay from the garbage.
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He couldn't breathe due to the mephitic air in the abandoned building.
Synonyms
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1.0
Giving off a strong, unpleasant stink
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1.0
Having a very bad smell
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7.0
Rotting and smelling very bad
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4.1
A very strong stink that makes you want to move away
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3.8
Having a bad smell that people do not like
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8.2
A very bad smell like rotten food
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8.5
Having a strong smell that is often unpleasant
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9.9
Full of a strong bad smell that makes the air feel unhealthy
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9.9
Smelling bad and making the air feel heavy and unhealthy
Antonyms
How Noxious
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Etymology
The word mephitic comes from the old Latin word mephitis, which meant 'poisonous air' or a bad smell from swamps and rotting things. So, mephitic describes a gas or smell that is foul and harmful to breathe.