OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 26738

mephitic

/ˌmɛˈfɪ.tɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mefítico
Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere.
"I could have borne the sight of his crutch," said she, "but the crutch and the nephew together really oppress me like a mephitic vapour."
It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-hous…
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