ordure

Example Sentences

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“It is I, Abigail,” she says, standing there with ordure on her dress, having been booted out of a carriage.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018

The alternative — trying to cram all this ordure back into its closet and forget we ever saw it — is, I hope, unthinkable.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017

Dog-fouling is a 20th-century, quintessentially urban problem: before the arrival of the automobile, the ordure you had to worry about was from horses.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2016

Forget interacting with the miscreant, which will only result in an ordeal over the ordure.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2013

“Pope!” she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley