pollutive

comparative more pollutive · superlative most pollutive

1. That causes environmental pollution; polluting

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   The dimmest of my pollutive dreams was a thousand times more dazzling than all the adultery the most virile writer of genius or the most talented impotent might imagine. My world was split. I was aware of not one but two sexes, neither of which was mine; both would be termed female by the anatomist. But to me, through the prism of my feelings, “they were as different as mist and mast.” All this I rationalize now.

   1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC