feculent
Americanadjective
adjective
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filthy, scummy, muddy, or foul
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of the nature of or containing waste matter
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of feculent
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin faeculentus full of dregs. See feces, -ulent
Example Sentences
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The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2018
Brann wrote to catch the wide world's attention that he might teach them gentler things than feculent shocks.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
In Algeria, a kind of kalo is cultivated under the name of chou caraibe, whose tubers are larger, but less feculent.
From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
Flowers of a fœtid or feculent odor, hermaphrodite, in compound racemes.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
We longed impatiently to take a bath, but we found only a great pool of feculent water, surrounded with palm-trees.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
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