lavatorial
Britishadjective
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of or in the style of decoration supposed to typify public lavatories
white lavatorial tiling
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characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological
lavatorial humour
Example Sentences
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It took me a few minutes to realise he was just being nice, partly because I couldn’t understand how he knew so much about the station’s lavatorial arrangements.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 4, 2015
To pros, a light drizzle can be a lavatorial trigger.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 19, 2014
One song that escaped the lavatorial graveyard was Never Gonna Change, a melodramatic break-up ballad, in which Georgia accuses her lover of "pushing down on my shoulders and emptying my lungs".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2014
A Polly Waffle was a marshmallow chocolate bar on sale in Australia until 2009 - but because it was brown and cylindrical the term also came to refer, with lavatorial humour, to something else.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2014
Our beds were not always clean, and the lavatorial necessaries either deficient or wholly wanting, in which latter case the pump was our only substitute.
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William
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