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cesspool

[ses-pool] / ˈsɛsˌpul /
NOUN
pit
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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

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

That’s a slippery slope into a cesspool I’d prefer to avoid.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

A typical M. Emmet Walsh character, USA Today film critic Mike Clark once wrote, was “a cesspool in a flowered shirt.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

He never thought he’d miss sleeping in a giant’s leather bed in a drakon-bone hut in a festering cesspool, but right now that sounded like Elysium.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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