pesthole
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pesthole
Example Sentences
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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
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
Reorientation will pull them out of that pesthole in a couple of months, and another decade will see them raising cattle and wheat again outside.
From Pet Farm by Aycock, Roger D.
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