feculent
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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
We longed impatiently to take a bath, but we found only a great pool of feculent water, surrounded with palm-trees.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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
Within the last three or four years, considerable quantities of a feculent substance, called Tous les mois, have been imported from the West Indies.
Our light showed no tokens of a feculent or corrupted atmosphere.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel