cesspool

[ UK /sˈɛspuːl/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛsˌpuɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Get Started For Free Linguix pencil

How To Use cesspool In A Sentence

  • The entire kitchen sink has been thrown in, and for this and other reasons departments of English have generally become cesspools of diffusion, disaffection, and resentment.
  • = -- Cesspool emanations usually consist of a mixture of sulphuretted hydrogen, sulphide of ammonium, and nitrogen; but sometimes it is only deoxidized air with an excess of carbonic acid gas. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
  • But whether the Cabinet falls or not, Czechs know that very little will change, for the cesspool that is Czech political culture runs very deep indeed.
  • I knew that such a place would have been a cesspool of violence, corruption and racism, and I wanted to write a Mississippi prison book that sort of reversed the polarities.
  • When you think you are the best, why go to "godforsaken" countries where they hate you for being American, are cesspool, and you might get robbed? Matt Kepnes: Why Americans Don't Travel Overseas
  • Its waste, up to ten pounds per day, drops through the slats where it collects before being periodically pumped into open-air cesspools.
  • Unsparing in his criticism, he held politicians squarely responsible for converting research institutions into a cesspool of dirty politics and trade unionism.
  • Roorback was becoming an online cesspool, slowly draining and dangerously atrophic—except everyone was a little bit brilliant, what with the embedded literary allusions and clever turns of phrase, the meta-references and nuanced understanding of irony. AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE
  • At nudging 78, I can remember a very different society from our current cesspool of moral, social and economic decadence.
  • Hersh's work won him a Pulitzer, and he's continued digging into military and political cesspools, including the CIA's bombing of Cambodia and its actions against Chile's Salvador Allende.
View all
This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy