dunghill
Americannoun
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a heap of dung
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a foul place, condition, or person
Etymology
Origin of dunghill
Example Sentences
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He once described himself to one of his children as “a machine condemned to devour books and then throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016
Jefferson said the work was like extracting diamonds from a dunghill.
From Salon • May 31, 2012
Outside New Delhi, where one Indian critic relegated it to "the dunghill of propaganda," Maxwell's assessment is widely accepted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment on the Bard: "A few pearls on a dunghill."
From Time Magazine Archive
He went across a dunghill to the stable door, upon which a large cross was marked in chalk by way of safeguard.
From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
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