Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or used in excretion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to excretion.
- Conducting off; serving for excretion: as, excretory ducts.
- noun An excretory organ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to
excretion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the process of excretion
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word excretory.
Examples
-
No word yet on whether or not the film will be 3D but considering the kind of excretory action it is sure to provide I would be surprised if Parkes/MacDonald do not jump on board the 3D craze.
Dreamworks Knows How to EAT, SLEEP, POOP – Collider.com 2010
-
Apparently this one scene left me with prose PTSD, and it certainly makes up, single-handedly, for any lack of excretory function in fantasy literature as a whole.
-
Reading it now, in a time period where anything and everything sexual and excretory are fodder for network sitcoms, her concerns seem quite quaint.
Superman the Last God of Krypton — Blast From the Past » Comics Worth Reading 2010
-
Sadomasochism, excretory sex-play, body-piercing and wife-pandering can easily veer off into something nasty.
-
"The English language is rife with creative ways of depicting sexual or excretory organs or activities," the judges wrote, "and even if the FCC were able to provide a complete list of all such expressions, new offensive and indecent words are invented every day."
-
The judges said the FCC hasn't given clear guidelines on its two main tests for indecency: whether material describes or depicts sexual or excretory organs or activities, and whether a broadcast is "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards."
-
One is the reproductive apparatus, then the other is the excretory apparatus, to be very blunt, then you keep those until you die.
-
"The English language is rife with creative ways of depicting sexual or excretory organs or activities," the judges wrote, "and even if the FCC were able to provide a complete list of all such expressions, new offensive and indecent words are invented every day."
-
"The English language is rife with creative ways of depicting sexual or excretory organs or activities," she wrote.
FCC Swear Word Censorship Policy Tossed By Federal Court 2010
-
The judges said the FCC hasn't given clear guidelines on its two main tests for indecency: whether material describes or depicts sexual or excretory organs or activities, and whether a broadcast is "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards."
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.