miasmal
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- miasmally adverb
Example Sentences
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Jem, sitting beside him, was squint-eyed, miasmal, and mute, as he always was in the morning.
From Literature
You have dodged the camping homeless at the Port Authority bus terminal, or wandered lost in the miasmal misery of Pennsylvania Station.
From New York Times
The miasmal vapors that clustered thickly about the flats by night gathered their linen and fled like the hunted.
From Project Gutenberg
There were decaying patches on the fungus growths and a miasmal mist was descending from it toward the ship.
From Project Gutenberg
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the jungle's ferny floor, Becking each fevered brain.
From Project Gutenberg
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