feculent
Example Sentences
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The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2018
It is wrapped up in the beggar's raiment, which unroll in our mills into paper—yesterday, a beggar's feculent rags; to-day, a newspaper, conveying the world's daily life into twenty thousand families.
From Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City by Henry Ward Beecher
Our light showed no tokens of a feculent or corrupted atmosphere.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
The leaves are dried in the sun, and at the first exposure, after having been plucked from the vine which produces them, they show the abundant feculent substance which they contain.
By this and similar conversations I elucidate a theory I have formed about the human race, viz: Greasy corpulence always has, as its first cause, a diet with too much farinacious or feculent substance.
From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson
