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
By this and similar conversations I elucidate a theory I have formed about the human race, viz: Greasy corpulence always has, as its first cause, a diet with too much farinacious or feculent substance.
From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette
On account of the present nauseating condition of New York Bay, owing to the offal nuisance, no prudent voyager should seek to stem its feculent tide unless provided with "something to take."
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various
Hot tea, turbid beer, and feculent liquors will have the same effect.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
Here, in a pit with indefinite doom on it, Here, in the fumes of a feculent moat, Under an alp with inscrutable gloom on it, Squats the wild witch with a ghoul at her throat!
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
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