shit

Or something close enough to fool you. “. . . and my life is sort of shit now. You are successful, and I am successful, and I’m wondering: Are you happy?”

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2025

In the middle of all this, I came fully awake and had what amounted to a terrible vision that everything I had written over three months was shit.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2023

Some were still wearing the same old shit.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2023

“Looking for Bigfoot means digging through a lot of shit, figurative and literal,” Squash once told Scientific American.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023

She doesn’t want to be seen with me when we’re holding plastic grocery bags full of cheap shit.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

I tell her it’s common to get the shits for the first six weeks.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2018

You’d be surprised how much a giant space crab shits.

From The Verge ● Aug. 15, 2018

McCartney’s men’s line included preppy polo shits and V-neck sweaters matched with patterned overcoats and relaxed track pants or jeans.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2018

This has been well covered in every piece of Dylan hagiography out there, and is certainly one of the clearest examples of him giving zero shits about what people want and expect from him.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2014

Whatever you want to call it—he’s got the shits something terrible.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Washington will play in the Wooden Legacy, a four-team preseason tournament on Nov. 24 and 25 in Anaheim, Calif. shat includes Saint Mary’s, Vanderbilt and Fresno State.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022

I loved him more than I ever thought I could love a person who shat into my hand while screaming at me.

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018

My question to him was, “How do you know that these were pieces of human faeces and not humans that were eaten by American lions and then shat out in the caves?”

From National Geographic ● Jun. 9, 2018

Bringing a pet pig to London and watching as it shat on the steps of the Albert Memorial.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2014

Many shat where they slept now, too feeble to crawl to the ditches she’d commanded them to dig.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Downtown had turned to chaos—people walking everywhere, cars trying to creep through the packed streets, police horses shitting on the sidewalk.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023

"I went in and said 'guys, I've just seen Brazil holding hands. They're shitting themselves!'"

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2021

“Eh, why bother? It’s not like she’ll be shitting in her pants at high-school graduation.”

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018

It’s not a song shitting on anything—it’s a song of healing and wanting.

From Time ● Sep. 29, 2016

She said that she felt like a road sign with birds shitting on her.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy