cesspool
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It was into the post-noughties misogynist cesspool that the early feminist blogosphere was born, and initially, it was fun and freewheeling.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
Some people, however, go as far as creating burner accounts just for shopping to keep the cesspool of targeted ads separate from their main profiles where they interact with family and friends.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025
That’s a slippery slope into a cesspool I’d prefer to avoid.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
The tool becomes dangerous, he added, when it “falls into the hands of those who argue that academia in general is a cesspool of incompetence and bad actors.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024
Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters as noisome as a cesspool, till they were slimed and fouled almost up to their necks and stank in one another’s nostrils.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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