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

In the throat of a feculent pit is the beard of a bloody-red sedge; And a foam like the foam of a fit sweats out of the lips of the ledge.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

Home Rule not only, like pumpkins and vegetable marrows, requires a feculent soil, but like them, and indeed like all watery and vaporous vegetables, it needs the forcing-frame.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

Kings of England used to touch for 'the king's evil,' and lay their pure fingers upon feculent masses of corruption.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

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