Meaning & use
mephitic
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having a foul or noxious smell, often suggesting something poisonous.
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A mephitic odor rose from the stagnant swamp water.
The old chemistry lab still carried a faint mephitic smell from decades of experiments.
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A literary, rarely spoken word; it's most often found in descriptive writing rather than everyday conversation.
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