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sty

noun as in den

Strong matches

noun as in dirty place

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It was a small sty and easily treatable, but Sherber still wanted to know what caused it.

The place was a ruin; literally, the pig sty of a collective farm.

It took a few days to turn this place into something other than a pig sty, which it was.

Thereupon dug the thrall a large ditch in the sty & carried away the earth, and afterwards placed wood across it.

Now by them in the sty had they a light there with them, and the Earl said: Why art thou so pale, yet withal as black as earth?

Howbeit one place is there wherein would I never seek for such a man 62 as thou, and that is in the swine-sty.

In the village I just came from, the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty.

In a few hours it will matter little whether old Ephraim Lovegrove lived and died in a pig-sty or a palace.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sty, such as: hole, pen, pigpen, and pigsty.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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