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
Flowers of a fœtid or feculent odor, hermaphrodite, in compound racemes.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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 Humboldt, Alexander von
Our light showed no tokens of a feculent or corrupted atmosphere.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel
The leaves are dried in the sun, and at the first exposure, after having been plucked from the vine which produces them, they show the abundant feculent substance which they contain.
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