pesthole
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pesthole
Example Sentences
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A white-robed figure scrambled selfconsciously to the courthouse lawn with a pesthole digger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Lyme, Conn., got an undeserved reputation as a pesthole when the disease later named for it was first identified there in 1975.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was built in 1805, has been damned for 80 years as a verminous pesthole, unfit for human habitation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, slowly recovering from a cholera epidemic that killed 2,000 people, India's biggest city was as much as ever a pesthole, and in the words of the U.N.
From Time Magazine Archive
Newlin thought of dying Mars, the burnt-out husk of Venus, the political and economic pesthole of Earth—even the grim, gray, terrible frontiers on the further planets and moons.
From Shock Treatment by Mullen, Stanley
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