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Definition of "miasmic" [miasmic]

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

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Use "miasmic" in a sentence
  • "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)."
  • "Films move you through that same kind of miasmic time."
  • "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.""