cesspool

Over the years, residents have seen the ecosystem change into an unrecognizable landscape — once clear ponds stocked with fish are now gray cesspools filled with white foam that is visible even in Google’s satellite images.

It is the year 79, and “Rome, once the beacon of civilization, is now a cesspool of corruption and decay.”

Morantz called the rattlesnake attack “Synanon’s Pearl Harbor,” the event that summoned the force of the law and exposed what he called “a cesspool ruled by violence and one man’s madness.”

Twitter has become a cesspool for the promotion of misinformation and disinformation; Elon Musk is not an honest actor.

A typical M. Emmet Walsh character, USA Today film critic Mike Clark once wrote, was “a cesspool in a flowered shirt.”