cesspit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cesspit
First recorded in 1860–65; cess(pool) + pit 1
Example Sentences
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On her campaigning work on online safety and trolling, she said she supported a ban for under-16s on the "absolute cesspit" of social media.
From BBC
Mr. Davis then turned around and threw a rope at the weapons specialist who was stuck in the cesspit.
From Washington Times
Sanitation in medieval towns relied on cesspits - holes in the ground used for faeces and household waste.
From BBC
In medieval Cambridge, many citizens subsisted in squalor, living alongside livestock in cramped cottages and dumping the household’s excrement into communal holes in the ground called cesspits.
From Science Magazine
"Does he show no contrition, no sense of shame that Downing Street under him has been a cesspit, full of arrogant, entitled narcissists?"
From BBC
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