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cesspool
[ ses-pool ]
noun
- a cistern, well, or pit for retaining the sediment of a drain or for receiving the sewage from a house.
- any filthy receptacle or place.
- any place of moral filth or immorality:
a cesspool of iniquity.
cesspool
/ ˈsɛsˌpuːl; ˈsɛsˌpɪt /
noun
- Also calledsinksump a covered cistern, etc, for collecting and storing sewage or waste water
- a filthy or corrupt place
a cesspool of iniquity
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Origin of cesspool1
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Example Sentences
On another, more macro level, did you find Europe to be such a cesspool of intrigue?
The vote on Sunday could take Ukraine toward a modern functioning democracy or plunge it back into a cesspool of corruption.
It allows me to stomach the pathetic shenanigans of the cesspool of Washington, D.C.
In the cesspool of cynicism that is Indian politics, we thought his train ride struck a blow instead for a degree of idealism.
Discouting the gross factor of swimming in that saline cesspool, there are some awesome images.
I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.
They are more fickle and cowardly than any other people in this cesspool which they call God's earth.
All the vice and misery of the country got thrown into that cesspool.
Once again I told her of my fear, my anxiety for her safety among those rough men in that cesspool of iniquity.
I had rescued him from one of his periodical plunges into the cesspool of debauch, and he was peaked, pallid, penitent.
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