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 • Feb. 8, 2018
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
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 Nordhoff, Charles
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 Buckley, Robert John
It is wrapped up in the beggar's raiment, which unroll in our mills into paper—yesterday, a beggar's feculent rags; to-day, a newspaper, conveying the world's daily life into twenty thousand families.
From Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City by Beecher, Henry Ward
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