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

His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous

If they do not operate appreciably in changing the general character of the feculent mass, at least they rescue from it many who in the great day of account will call their authors blessed.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

By this and similar conversations I elucidate a theory I have formed about the human race, viz: Greasy corpulence always has, as its first cause, a diet with too much farinacious or feculent substance.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette

Our light showed no tokens of a feculent or corrupted atmosphere. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel