Feculent

//ˈfɛkjʊlənt// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Dirty with faeces or other impurities

    "At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon."

Adjective
  1. 1
    foul with waste matter wordnet

Example

More examples

"At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon."

Etymology

From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.

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