pesthole

American  

[pest-hohl] / ˈpɛstˌhoʊl /

noun

1. a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.

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Etymology

Origin of pesthole

First recorded in 1900–05; pest + hole

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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In some moister climate La Corrala would have been a nest of contagion: the wind and sun of Madrid, however,—that sun which brings blisters to the skin,—saw to the disinfection of that pesthole.

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Sommers resolved to find service in one of the military hospitals that before long became notorious as pestholes.

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"It may come in handy when we are ready to clear out of this pesthole."

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