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

In proud and gay   And gain-devoted cities, thither flow,   As to a common and most noisome sewer,   The dregs and feculence of every land.

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William

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

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From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)