adverb
- In a manner relating to or characterized by miasma; in a way that is noxious, foul, or unwholesome
Usage: Formal or literary; Often used in historical or medical contexts when discussing outdated theories of disease transmission
Examples
- The swamp air hung miasmically over the village, causing widespread illness.
- Nineteenth-century physicians miasmically attributed cholera to bad air rather than contaminated water.
- The factory's emissions spread miasmically through the neighborhood.
- Medieval cities were miasmically polluted by poor sanitation and waste.
- The room smelled miasmically of decay and neglect.