Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house.
- noun A filthy, disgusting, or morally corrupt place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sunk chamber, cistern, or well in a drain or privy, to receive the sediment or filth.
- noun Figuratively, any foul or fetid receptacle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
underground pit wheresewage is held. - noun by extension A
filthy place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The people of city X or county Y can be relied upon not to turn their community into a cesspool without the state and federal governments telling them what a cesspool is and is not.
Sound Politics: Why Is Seattle Such a Wuss About Strip Clubs? 2006
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Notice the crawler across the bottom of the screen capture, “Three people get caught in cesspool” … would that be Bush, Cheney and Rice?
Think Progress » VIDEO: 8th General Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation 2006
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I hope the judge doesn’t see, or I’m in cesspool of trouble.
Charles, Pending 2010
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The meme is that anytime anyone brings up that conservatives were dead wrong and acted like racist idiots when it came to Apartheid, the response is that modern South Africa is a cesspool, which is nottrue.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up. 2010
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The meme is that anytime anyone brings up that conservatives were dead wrong and acted like racist idiots when it came to Apartheid, the response is that modern South Africa is a cesspool, which is not true.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up. 2010
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The meme is that anytime anyone brings up that conservatives were dead wrong and acted like racist idiots when it came to Apartheid, the response is that modern South Africa is a cesspool, which is nottrue.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up. 2010
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The meme is that anytime anyone brings up that conservatives were dead wrong and acted like racist idiots when it came to Apartheid, the response is that modern South Africa is a cesspool, which is not true.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up. 2010
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We also publish and link to some stuff my readers would call cesspool material, but I do it because there is value in the broadest possible conversation in our community.
Nervous About Link Journalism? Ignore Web’s ‘Cesspool’ And Tap Its ‘Natural Spring’ - Publishing 2.0 2008
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A cesspool is a charming apartment compared with the old Bog-woman's brewery.
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Weeks later five officials from the cash-strapped Detroit Public School system, long known as a cesspool of fraud and mismanagement, got criminally charged for operating an illegal scheme in which they openly stole tens of thousands of dollars from the system, took illegal kickbacks and paid friends who never did any work for the district.
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader The Public Eye 2010
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