Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of foul or impure matter; fecal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Foul with extraneous or impure substances; muddy; turbid; offensive; consisting of or abounding with dregs, sediment, or excrementitious matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Foul withextraneous orimpure substances; abounding with sediment orexcrementitious matter;muddy ;thick ;turbid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective foul with waste matter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The highest number of feculent cell phones was found in London: 28 percent.
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Cell Phones: A Biological Part of You M.D. Matthew Edlund 2011
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By March 1824 she was paralyzed on the left side and vomiting "vast quantities of feculent blood"; she was also covered with ulcers exuding such a terrible odor that it was difficult for even family members to be near her.
A Mixed Blessing Fergus M. Bordewich 2011
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The highest number of feculent cell phones was found in London: 28 percent.
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Cell Phones: A Biological Part of You M.D. Matthew Edlund 2011
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I assure you that they are studded with feculent tidbits of loathsome vileness, mostly in the form of links to websites explaining how Obama is exactly the same as Hitler and why it's important to defend white culture.
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My far too beautiful wife, who promises one day to reveal to me her name, was tossing a ball into the feculent surf for the dog to retrieve.
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When asked for assistance by constituent veterans, the Mayor's Office of Veterans 'Affairs and other local and state leaders repeatedly regurgitate the same by now feculent phrase.
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He chose as the party's epitaph a statement from a Massachusetts senator, Rufus Choate: "Any thing more low, obscene and feculent the manifold heavings of history have not cast up."
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He chose as the party's epitaph a statement from a Massachusetts senator, Rufus Choate: "Any thing more low, obscene and feculent the manifold heavings of history have not cast up."
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When asked for assistance by constituent veterans, the Mayor's Office of Veterans 'Affairs and other local and state leaders repeatedly regurgitate the same by now feculent phrase.
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My far too beautiful wife, who promises one day to reveal to me her name, was tossing a ball into the feculent surf for the dog to retrieve.
whichbe commented on the word feculent
Covered with filth; filthy. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008
qms commented on the word feculent
Though most think them tasteless and petulant
His fans find his tweets are quite esculent
They dine with delight
On venom and spite
And prize the most bitter and feculent.
March 28, 2018