mephitic in English
adjective
1
(especially of a gas or vapor) foul-smelling; noxious.
The revelation gave a new frisson to such descriptions as that of Silas Wegg, stumping triumphantly over the mounds, his wooden leg puncturing the surface crust, leaving a trail of mephitic vapours behind him.
adjective
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "mephitic" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mephitic", or refer to the context using the word "mephitic" in the English Dictionary.
1. I accustomed myself to the mephitic stench.
2. In a passage removed by Paine, Twain excoriates "the iniquitous Cuban-Spanish War" and Gen. Leonard Wood's "mephitic record" as governor general in Havana.
3. Axill-of or pertaining to the armpit (uncommon as a prefix) Latin , armpit Axilla: azo(to)-nitrogenous compound French azote, nitrogen; from Greek άζωτικός (ázōtikós) ἀ-(a-, no, without) + ζωή (zōḗ, life)), mephitic air azothermia: raised temperature due to …