cesspool
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.
Origin of cesspool
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How to use cesspool in a sentence
On another, more macro level, did you find Europe to be such a cesspool of intrigue?
How The Cold War Endgame Played Out In The Rubble Of The Berlin Wall | William O’Connor | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
Roland Martin: America, You Can’t Handle the Truth! | Roland S. Martin | January 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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.
Revolution and Other Essays | Jack LondonThey are more fickle and cowardly than any other people in this cesspool which they call God's earth.
The Making of a Saint | William Somerset MaughamAll the vice and misery of the country got thrown into that cesspool.
Ravenshoe | Henry KingsleyOnce again I told her of my fear, my anxiety for her safety among those rough men in that cesspool of iniquity.
The Trail of '98 | Robert W. ServiceI had rescued him from one of his periodical plunges into the cesspool of debauch, and he was peaked, pallid, penitent.
The Trail of '98 | Robert W. Service
British Dictionary definitions for cesspool
cesspit (ˈsɛsˌpɪt)
/ (ˈsɛsˌpuːl) /
Also called: sink, sump a covered cistern, etc, for collecting and storing sewage or waste water
a filthy or corrupt place: a cesspool of iniquity
Origin of cesspool
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