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

Brann wrote to catch the wide world's attention that he might teach them gentler things than feculent shocks.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

It is wrapped up in the beggar's raiment, which unroll in our mills into paper—yesterday, a beggar's feculent rags; to-day, a newspaper, conveying the world's daily life into twenty thousand families.

From Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City by Beecher, Henry Ward