shit

Or something close enough to fool you. “. . . and my life is sort of shit now. You are successful, and I am successful, and I’m wondering: Are you happy?”

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2025

“Multiple times I have gone to make the bed and notice a nice smear of shit on his side.”

From Slate ● May 17, 2024

Like goods with environmental and political messages, cute mental health shit is acclimating us to a world where we are, on balance, perhaps a little more miserable than we need to be.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2023

Some were still wearing the same old shit.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2023

“Doesn’t matter how long you’ve lived here. There’s always some scary shit you haven’t seen yet.”

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

You’d be surprised how much a giant space crab shits.

From The Verge ● Aug. 15, 2018

McCartney’s men’s line included preppy polo shits and V-neck sweaters matched with patterned overcoats and relaxed track pants or jeans.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2018

I regret writing the song simply because I started getting a lot of people coming to my shows who didn't give two shits about my music.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2013

“We have everything from his Social Security number, to his career in the military, to his clearances,” Sabu told the others, “to how many shits a day he takes.”

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2012

Whatever you want to call it—he’s got the shits something terrible.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Washington will play in the Wooden Legacy, a four-team preseason tournament on Nov. 24 and 25 in Anaheim, Calif. shat includes Saint Mary’s, Vanderbilt and Fresno State.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022

I loved him more than I ever thought I could love a person who shat into my hand while screaming at me.

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018

My question to him was, “How do you know that these were pieces of human faeces and not humans that were eaten by American lions and then shat out in the caves?”

From National Geographic ● Jun. 9, 2018

Bringing a pet pig to London and watching as it shat on the steps of the Albert Memorial.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2014

And you hear how Gorgias, when a swallow shat on his head, rebuked it: “Shame on you, Philomela!”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

"I went in and said 'guys, I've just seen Brazil holding hands. They're shitting themselves!'"

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2021

“Eh, why bother? It’s not like she’ll be shitting in her pants at high-school graduation.”

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018

Though it’s winter, he’s wearing a light blue tee-shirt of a unicorn shitting a rainbow and is slightly sweaty.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2017

It’s not a song shitting on anything—it’s a song of healing and wanting.

From Time ● Sep. 29, 2016

She said that she felt like a road sign with birds shitting on her.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy