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
In his public rhetoric, Jacobs doesn’t leave room for the idea that the buildings he demolishes are anything but cesspools.
He Tore Down Motels Where Poor Residents Lived During a Housing Crisis. City Leaders Did Nothing. | by Anjeanette Damon, photography by David Calvert, special to ProPublica | November 12, 2021 | ProPublicaThe Roaring Fork Valley is also a dollar-hungry cesspool of designer clothes and tacky high-end mountain art that lines the walls of mostly empty million-dollar second homes.
None of that tracked with the toxic cesspool of negativity that permeated the day, or even with the narrative that NBC was trying to spin.
The 2021 Olympics Are an Inspiring, Infuriating Shitshow | Kevin Fallon | July 30, 2021 | The Daily Beast“It’s not like someone wakes up one day and, all of a sudden, their site has become this cesspool of hate speech and extremism,” Fisher-Birch said.
TheDonald’s owner speaks out on why he finally pulled plug on hate-filled site | Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostBrand safety and suitability have been top-of-mind for marketers concerns about content on these platforms — cesspools of hate and misinformation are not great places for most brands to be.
Social Shorts: Facebook attribution change on hold, Instagram gets more shoppable, turns 10 | Ginny Marvin | October 12, 2020 | Search Engine Land
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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