feculent

Example Sentences

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The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2018

Such an "ad." would forever damn even the Nashville Banner, or show in the feculent columns of the Kansas City Star like a splotch of soot on the marble face of Raphael's Madonna.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

Home Rule not only, like pumpkins and vegetable marrows, requires a feculent soil, but like them, and indeed like all watery and vaporous vegetables, it needs the forcing-frame.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

On account of the present nauseating condition of New York Bay, owing to the offal nuisance, no prudent voyager should seek to stem its feculent tide unless provided with "something to take."

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various

Sensibility is smothered in, the feculent steams of roast beef, and delicacy stained by the waste drippings of porter.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.