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pigsty

[pig-stahy] / ˈpɪgˌstaɪ /




NOUN
sty
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We’re jazzed and we’re hungry and we can’t face returning to the pigsty that is our Langley Park apartment.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Their flat is a "pigsty", laughs Rebecca Ratcliffe, cluttered with campaign materials.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2022

I don’t know what to do, and I can’t just “let it go” because no one should live in a pigsty, and I’d hate for her whole house to be like this when she’s older.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2021

“And a fine pigsty we’d live in, too,” Jason said.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner




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