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
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 Anne MacDonell
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 William Cowper
Fabricate, fabulous, facetious, factitious, fallacious, fallible, fastidious, fatuous, feasible, feculence, fecundity, felicitous, felonious, fetid, feudal, fiducial, filament, filtrate, finesse, flaccid, flagitious, floriculture, florid, fluctuate, foible, forfeiture, fortuitous, fractious, franchise, frangible, frontal, froward, furtive.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
