scatological
Britishadjective
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characterized by obscenity or preoccupation with obscenity, esp in the form of references to excrement
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of or relating to the scientific study of excrement
Example Sentences
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With plenty of grass, trees, dirt and hints of scatological delights in the air, they were in dog paradise.
From Los Angeles Times
Has becoming a dad made him more scatological?
From New York Times
Victor Estrada’s loose, abstract paintings are vaguely scatological, the excretions of oil paint creating playful, self-contained landscapes of organic imagination confined within the four edges of a canvas.
From Los Angeles Times
“But that doesn’t mean that we won’t,” Dr. McKenzie said, carefully scooping up the scatological clues the birds had left behind.
From New York Times
The riff that runs through all of Albert’s writing and relationships was his great sense of humor, which ranged from the scatological to the acerbic.
From Los Angeles Times
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