cesspool
Example Sentences
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It was into the post-noughties misogynist cesspool that the early feminist blogosphere was born, and initially, it was fun and freewheeling.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
The misery now being inflicted on poor people crowded into cesspool camps from the Congo to Bangladesh defies description.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
Some people, however, go as far as creating burner accounts just for shopping to keep the cesspool of targeted ads separate from their main profiles where they interact with family and friends.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025
As we ponder the end of the Pac-12 Conference, should we celebrate the new Pac-2, or commiserate that so much of college sports has dropped into a giant cesspool?
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2023
Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters as noisome as a cesspool, till they were slimed and fouled almost up to their necks and stank in one another’s nostrils.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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