feculent

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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

Our light showed no tokens of a feculent or corrupted atmosphere. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

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 Beecher, Henry Ward

Hot tea, turbid beer, and feculent liquors will have the same effect.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

Flowers of a fœtid or feculent odor, hermaphrodite, in compound racemes.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers