miasmal

English

Etymology

From 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.

Related terms

• miasma

Anagrams

• Lamaism, almamis, lamaism