Mephitis

This indulgence, especially so on the part of an ex-president, is something of a mephitis, an abyssal seeking of ever lower depths and ever more perverse rhetorical indulgences. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Few, on either side of the political spectrum, come well out of the affair and over it all hangs the olid mephitis of abject appeasement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Does not the pungent mephitis of hypocrisy once more effortlessly wheeze from this humbugger of a politician? ❋ Unknown (2007)

I ventured "putrid miasma" on one thread a few days ago, but "moral mephitis"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Michael B (8th Jan 4005pm) "an intellectual and moral mephitis." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The MSM's reportage on Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, regimes such as Iran and Syria, etc. reflects, all too predictably and all too typically, a revulsion, an intellectual and moral mephitis. simon bacchini ❋ Unknown (2009)

During the night drive we encountered cottontails (Sylvilagus nuttali), black-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus californicus), pinyon mice (Peromyscus trueii), and one striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis)! ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2007)

After their removal from Office, this pair of common skunks with apologies to Mephitis mephitis can then be tried for their many war criminals and then for 9-11 High Treason… The rest of their gang of war-idiots will be convicted of their many supporting crimes… ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sniffing cautiously, I deduced that the barrels I saw contained-among other things-salt fish, tar, apples, beer, and sauerkraut, while bundles of woolen blankets dyed with cochineal and indigo, kegs of black powder, and half-tanned hides reeking of dog turds lent their own peculiar fragrances to the unique mephitis within. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2001)

Instantly a cone of black mephitis shot forth, a loathsome, bituminous stream of putrefaction that reeked of the grave and the cesspool, of the utmost reaches of decay before the dust accepts the disintegrated atoms. ❋ Various (N/A)

Soon a woman ka-wate (mephitis) came along with a vase and a gourd for water. ❋ Katharine Berry [Editor] Judson (N/A)

Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset, shoved against the side of the house, rolled over, suffocated with bilge, mephitis, and stewing oil. ❋ Unknown (1909)

I was giddy, but not sick; and the giddiness soon went away, but left a feverishness and want of appetite, which I attributed, in great measure, to the "_saeva mephitis_" of the bilge-water; and it was certainly not decreased by the _exportations from the cabin_. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)

_Vi Superum_, _quibus haud curae gravis aura mephitis_: ❋ John Huntley Skrine (1885)

Come along with me, and get the mephitis blown out of you. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Calm as a summer morning walked off one of the mephitis babies, holding his pretty tail straight up like a kitten's, while the other four went on with their frolic in the grass. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)