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
- feculence noun
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
Though its storage tanks are empty, the feculent odor of its cargo is unmistakable.
From New York Times
The less time “feculent” poisons reside in our colons, the thinking went, the less we absorb into our blood, and the healthier we’ll be.
From Salon
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 Project Gutenberg
Hot tea, turbid beer, and feculent liquors will have the same effect.
From Project Gutenberg
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