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feculent

[fek-yuh-luhnt] / ˈfɛk jə lənt /






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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

In the throat of a feculent pit is the beard of a bloody-red sedge; And a foam like the foam of a fit sweats out of the lips of the ledge.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

On account of the present nauseating condition of New York Bay, owing to the offal nuisance, no prudent voyager should seek to stem its feculent tide unless provided with "something to take."

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various

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 William Cowper Brann

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 Fayette Robinson




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