mephitic
Example Sentences
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They invariably come laden with words that seem meant to prove his vocabulary is bigger than yours: flocculent, crapulent, caducous, anaglypta, mephitic, velutinous.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2020
Like a mephitic vapor from a sword-and-sandals epic, it slips under the door frame and into your head.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2020
These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 5, 2017
That mephitic swamp still produces the odd belch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 14, 2015
A lake of molten sulphur extended the length of an immense canyon, releasing its mephitic vapors in sudden gusts and belches and barring the way of the solitary winged figure who stood at its edge.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
