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
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.
Home Rule not only, like pumpkins and vegetable marrows, requires a feculent soil, but like them, and indeed like all watery and vaporous vegetables, it needs the forcing-frame.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
If they do not operate appreciably in changing the general character of the feculent mass, at least they rescue from it many who in the great day of account will call their authors blessed.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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