foul matter
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Even Dictionary.com got into the act, tweeting “Sinkhole: A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water. Also a sinkhole: A place into which foul matter runs.”
From Seattle Times
Ms Shriver has created an alter ego who is also her zaniest heroine: a slim, chilli-flake-eating exercise addict called Enola Mandi, an author who totes around a box of her own literary papers entitled “Foul Matter”.
From Economist
The only safety with a water-closet, as with any other vessel connected with the drainage of the house, is to secure an immediate and complete washing away of all foul matter of every kind.
From Project Gutenberg
Filth, filth, n. foul matter: anything that defiles, physically or morally.—adv.
From Project Gutenberg
Afterwards they shewed unto us one horrible and long letter of her own hand, as they say, containing foul matter, and abominable to be either thought of, or to be written by a Prince, with divers fond ballads, and other writings before specified, were closed in a little coffer of silver and gilt heretofore given by her to Bothwell....
From Project Gutenberg
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