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Definition of "mephitis" []

  • An offensive smell; a stench. (noun)
  • A poisonous or foul-smelling gas emitted from the earth. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "mephitis" in a sentence
  • "Few, on either side of the political spectrum, come well out of the affair and over it all hangs the olid mephitis of abject appeasement."
  • "This indulgence, especially so on the part of an ex-president, is something of a mephitis, an abyssal seeking of ever lower depths and ever more perverse rhetorical indulgences."
  • "I ventured "putrid miasma" on one thread a few days ago, but "moral mephitis"?"