cesspool

[ses-pool]

noun

1. a cistern, well, or pit for retaining the sediment of a drain or for receiving the sewage from a house.

2. any filthy receptacle or place.

3. any place of moral filth or immorality.

   a cesspool of iniquity.

cesspool

/ ˈsɛsˌpuːl, ˈsɛsˌpɪt /

noun

1. Also called: sink.  sump. a covered cistern, etc, for collecting and storing sewage or waste water

2. a filthy or corrupt place

   a cesspool of iniquity

Word History and Origins

Origin of cesspool¹

1575–85; cess (< Italian cesso privy < Latin rēcessus recess, place of retirement) + pool ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of cesspool¹

C17: changed (through influence of _pool ¹ ) from earlier cesperalle, from Old French souspirail vent, air, from soupirer to sigh; see _suspire

Example Sentences

Some people, however, go as far as creating burner accounts just for shopping to keep the cesspool of targeted ads separate from their main profiles where they interact with family and friends.

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He said the show was being taped in the “crime-ridden cesspool that is New York City” and notes that “someone’s National Guard should invade this place, am I right?”

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“L.A.? It’s a cesspool. When I was transferred from Chicago, I said, ‘Only if I can live in Orange County.’

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She pointed out that, despite the president’s false rhetoric depicting the District as a cesspool of crime and violence, crime rates were at an historic 30-year low.

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Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, has falsely called mRNA vaccines “the deadliest ever made” and referred to the CDC as a “cesspool of corruption.”

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