miasma

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  1. noun A noxious atmosphere or influence: "The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere . . . like a coiling miasma” (Louis Auchincloss).
  2. noun A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.
  3. noun A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation: wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.

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  • Despair flowed out from between the thinned lines of light like a dark miasma, a night that admitted no possibility of dawn. —  Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer 3 - Dancer's Illusion (v1.0)
  • But so is the perception in the West that Africa is a hopeless miasma, a candidate for the occasional guilty handout but unlikely to ever change, no matter how much money we throw at them. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
  • The whole thing is now something of a gigantic miasma, as some of us warned early on would occur. —  Dissident Voice
  • Blah blah, more jargon on how the miasma is spreading all around the world which Jade presents the group with an option … to sacrifice 10 thousand people and have Asch use his hyperresonance, which will also kill him in the process. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • A miasma, a dogma, a deceptive guide to past prerogatives, purged by plunging economies worldwide of any present meanings ever once so wrapped. —  Salem-News.com
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  1. Greek, pollution, stain, from miainein, to pollute.

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  1. New Latin: see miasm.
 

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