Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pit for refuse or sewage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cesspool .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cesspool ; apit or coveredcistern used to collectsewage and waste water.
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
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Examples
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It may be Shakespeare's cesspit, but then again, that which we call a cesspit by any other name would smell as bad.
Latest Articles telegraph.co.uk 2010
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It may be Shakespeare's cesspit, but then again, that which we call a cesspit by any other name would smell as bad.
Latest Articles telegraph.co.uk 2010
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England is a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims, the Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka has said in an interview in which he also accused Britain of allowing the existence of "indoctrination schools".
Elephant Bar 2010
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Gordon Brown presiding over a 'cesspit' at Downing Street, claims Nadine Dorries
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(Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka prefers the term "cesspit" to describe London's function as an Islamist breeding ground.)
Foreign Policy CHRISTIAN CARYL 2010
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England is 'cesspit' breeding Islamists, says Soyinka
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'Spanish practices' at the heart of worst national postal strike for two years Afghanistan: Gordon Brown criticised after the death of eight soldiers Gordon Brown presiding over a 'cesspit' at Downing Street, claims Nadine Dorries
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Gordon Brown presiding over a 'cesspit' at Downing Street, claims Nadine Dorries
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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British winners of the prestigious Nobel Prize, including Indian-origin biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and political activist Wole Soyinka has described England as a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims.
WN.com - Articles related to Hawaii gets $840,000 grant to study plant biology 2010
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England is a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims, the Nobel laureate and political activist
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