privy
adjective
participating in the knowledge of something private or secret (usually followed byto ).
privies
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pluralof privy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Three indoor privies were lighted by skylights and ingeniously ventilated by a 150-foot-long lateral tunnel that drew in air and discharged it through adjoining chimneys, providing a continuous draft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
I never followed up to learn whether it was in time to restock the park privies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued a “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” asking the world’s brightest minds to redesign our privies to recover valuable resources from the waste.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2021
Some of the nobles who lived in the palace or its grounds would use the hallways to relieve themselves instead of the privies because the latter were so inadequate and far from their rooms.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
But their well-tended vegetable gardens, small frame houses, and privies were blackened with soot from coal-burning steel plants nearby.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
