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dunghill

NOUN
  1. a heap of dung or refuse
  2. a foul or degraded condition

How To Use dunghill In A Sentence

  • A cock is bold on his dunghill
  • General de Wet, speaking from the top of a dunghill, declared that he would rather stand there with his own people than on a decorated platform amongst strangers. The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 1
  • In purging the New Testament of its miracles and of the very notion of the Resurrection, Jefferson claimed he was separating the "diamonds" from a "dunghill. Denis Lacorne: Rick Perry's War On The Founding Fathers
  • Moreover, it won't work: as I noted last month, Glenn Mulcaire, whose work for the News Of The World has formed the basis for most of the recent slew of revelations, was only one of around a dozen investigators working for those who scrabble around on the dunghill that is Grubstreet. Tim Fenton: Phone Hacking - A Lack Of Leadership
  • QUOTATION: Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill. Quotations
  • _Pingit et in varios terrestria sydera flores_," [4] and variety of curious and costly workmanship, but also with rare and medicinable herbs sought up in the land within these forty years: so that, in comparison of this present, the ancient gardens were but dunghills and laistowes, [5] to such as did possess them. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Spelga Dam held very good trout - a welcome addition to compo rations - and a local farmer let me dig little red brandling worms out of his dunghill to bait my hooks.
  • This broken clock/drum says: Amazon reviewers suck, as does Amazon; they're the flies making the dunghill look lively. "Serpent!" screamed the Pigeon.
  • Halbert, "doubt not that thy faithful Affability will be more commoved by the speech of this rudesby, than the bright and serene moon is perturbed by the baying of the cottage-cur, proud of the height of his own dunghill, which, in his conceit, lifteth him nearer unto the majestic luminary. The Monastery
  • Every cock crows on its own dunghill
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