mephitic
adjective
me·phit·ic
mə-ˈfi-tik 
: of, relating to, or resembling mephitis : foul-smelling
mephitic vapors
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You’re attacked by a giant wolf, pugilist mushrooms, mephitic swamps, and a sword-wielding spider.
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Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
Gradually, however, in the 1980s, Duplin’s pastoral idyll becomes a mephitic dead zone, thanks to the nightmarish business scheme of an ambitious hog farmer named Wendell H. Murphy.
—Jeff Calder, ajc, 3 June 2022
These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
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Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
Gradually, however, in the 1980s, Duplin’s pastoral idyll becomes a mephitic dead zone, thanks to the nightmarish business scheme of an ambitious hog farmer named Wendell H. Murphy.
—Jeff Calder, ajc, 3 June 2022
These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
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mephitic
adjective
me·phit·ic
mə-ˈfit-ik
: having a foul odor
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