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

Sensibility is smothered in, the feculent steams of roast beef, and delicacy stained by the waste drippings of porter.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.

Such an "ad." would forever damn even the Nashville Banner, or show in the feculent columns of the Kansas City Star like a splotch of soot on the marble face of Raphael's Madonna.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

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

We longed impatiently to take a bath, but we found only a great pool of feculent water, surrounded with palm-trees.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von