pigsty
Americannoun
plural
pigstiesnoun
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a pen for pigs; sty
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a dirty or untidy place
Etymology
Origin of pigsty
Example Sentences
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We’re jazzed and we’re hungry and we can’t face returning to the pigsty that is our Langley Park apartment.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023
There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022
The place is a pigsty, my wife constantly complains, and when I try to help out with the twins she bites my head off.
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2022
Their flat is a "pigsty", laughs Rebecca Ratcliffe, cluttered with campaign materials.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2022
She may have gone to the pigsty as a last act of responsibility: she would protect this child as she had protected its father.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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