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
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
His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
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
By this and similar conversations I elucidate a theory I have formed about the human race, viz: Greasy corpulence always has, as its first cause, a diet with too much farinacious or feculent substance.
From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette
