(n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Example Sentences:
(1) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
(2) The casual organisms were considered to be miasmas -- noxious emanations -- or "contagia" i.e.
(3) Nothing seems quite above board in a miasma of Windrush and Firerush nameplates , out of sight, mind and national boundary.
(4) Non-contagionists put forward several hypotheses to explain the origin and the spreading of cholera, mainly "miasma" theory and the Hippocratic paradigm of "epidemic constitution".
(5) The doctrinal differences help explain how LET has maintained a distinctive character in the miasma of Pakistani militancy.
(6) British Toryism, nowadays synonymous with Conservatism, has never escaped its metaphor miasma.
(7) If the pinnacle of urban living is refuse-clogged open drainage which, when sun warmed, emits the most noxious miasmas that mingle with generator exhaust, then get me to the countryside.
(8) The violence and the horror it has hosted in recent decades coats it like a sticky, stinking miasma.
(9) Yet the high hopes of a coherent, funded effort that would spread clean technology through the developing world, while supporting subsistence farmers to adapt new methods to improve sustainability, have been bogged down in a mess of broken promises and mistrust, and a miasma of acronyms and initials.
(10) When the Heat came up with promising offensive possessions in key spots, they would, more often than not, just fizzle out in a miasma of misses, turnovers and bad fouls.
(11) The actual culprit was sewage in drinking water (as the Soho doctor John Snow deduced in the 1850s), yet the miasma theory was nonetheless useful in developing city infrastructure, as it encouraged the authorities to clean up.
(12) To these concerns can be added: the shortages of qualified teachers in some subjects; the shortage of school places in some areas where local authorities have been prevented from building; baseline testing of four-year-olds; the “foul miasma of Ofsted” (as one teachers’ union general secretary recently described it); surveys showing a quarter of different age groups of children expressing a dislike of school; and the 1% cap on teachers’ salaries over the past five years.
(13) Without luck, some analysts foresee a mini-Iraq in the making, a new miasma of civil war, fragmentation and sectarian conflict.
(14) Like all other epidemics, they were thought to be attributed to a miasma transported by the air and resulting from bad vapours, and it was for two milleniums that this remained the explanation for infectiosity.
(15) The politics of miasma, where words matter more than facts and actions, lets the Tea Party demand the impossible – debt reduction with tax cuts, spending cuts without touching the gargantuan defence budget.
(16) That vacuum had to be filled in order for the status quo – the miasma of relationships between the state, organised crime, freemasonry and commerce – to remain intact.
(17) The event occurred before the bacteriological era, when fear of cholera caused by a miasma gripped the city.
(18) The early Victorians had their own theory about what caused cholera, that it was "spread by miasmas," he says, "which are basically bad smells.
(19) One attributed the occurrence of miasma to this component.
(20) The Prince of Wales's vision may be intuited from Highgrove, a miasma of upper-middle-class over-stuffing.