scatological

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Vance has publicly criticised the extremists, at one point using a scatological insult against Fuentes during an interview with website Unherd.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Victor Estrada’s loose, abstract paintings are vaguely scatological, the excretions of oil paint creating playful, self-contained landscapes of organic imagination confined within the four edges of a canvas.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

The wild Nellie symbolizes the ethos of the sprawling movie, which takes the classic narrative of a starry-eyed ingénue and adds a layer of excess and scatological humor.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022

All the zany, distasteful, irreverent and at times scatological excursions dramatize the multiplicity and fragility of Evelyn’s daily life.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

The importance which scatological rites and ceremonials, that is, certain peculiar niceties practiced in connection with the emptying of the bowels, play in the evolution of the race have been extensively discussed in literature.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard