miasmal
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Pedestrians in city streets gasped at the miasmal murk even as newspaper headlines screamed that their next breath might be a dose of poison.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his 1963 novel, a core sampling from that vein of irrational hostility that separates servants from masters, haves from havenots, Britain's John Fowles explored the miasmal psychology of an impotent, whey-faced nonentity named Clegg.
From Time Magazine Archive
A more damaging criticism is that, instead of rehabilitating a hero, he has merely disinterred a ghost whose miasmal presence still haunts the Conservative Party.
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During the Vietnam war, America's image of the conflict was shaped by news footage of battlefields dominated by miasmal jungle and of an enemy who was often portrayed as merciless and inhuman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jem, sitting beside him, was squint-eyed, miasmal, and mute, as he always was in the morning.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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