miasmal

English

Etymology

miasma +‎ -al

Adjective

miasmal (comparative more miasmal, superlative most miasmal)

  1. Having a noxious atmosphere.
    • 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:
      A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.

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