ordure
Example Sentences
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“It is I, Abigail,” she says, standing there with ordure on her dress, having been booted out of a carriage.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018
Around 100,000 are expected to brave Windsor train queues, airport-style security and ceremonial horse ordure.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2018
The alternative — trying to cram all this ordure back into its closet and forget we ever saw it — is, I hope, unthinkable.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017
Forget interacting with the miscreant, which will only result in an ordeal over the ordure.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2013
“Pope!” she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
