feculence
Example Sentences
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All too clear was the main contaminant: “Near the bridges the feculence rolled up in clouds so dense that they were visible at the surface, even in water of this kind,” he wrote.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2016
Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Maybe after all the blighting soul-fistula she had so deftly and tirelessly probed for had burst and its poisonous feculence was now eddying away.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
A cloud, looked at as a cloud only, is no more a subject for painting than so much feculence in dirty water.
From Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 by Ruskin, John
It is not amiss that some feculence lie thick upon the Ale, and work not all out; for that will keep in the spirits.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
