What is another word for cesspool?

Pronunciation: [sˈɛspuːl] (IPA)

Cesspool is a word used to describe a foul-smelling hole containing human waste and sewage. It is a word that is often associated with negative or disgusting connotations. However, there are several synonyms for cesspool that can be used to describe a similar condition in a less offensive way. Some of the synonyms for cesspool include septic tank, sewage pit, sewer, latrine, waste pit, outhouse, privy, and outhouse. These words can be used to describe a similar condition without being as derogatory as the word cesspool. By using more appropriate synonyms, you can communicate the same idea without resorting to vulgar language.

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    • Noun, singular or mass
      shithole.
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What are the hypernyms for Cesspool?

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Usage examples for Cesspool

Not satisfied, I took that paper to the cesspool and dumped it there.
"Botchan (Master Darling)"
Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri
"Yes," I said, "and dumped it in the cesspool; go and pick it up if you want it,"-and she withdrew with a startled look.
"Botchan (Master Darling)"
Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri
Thus the ocean has become a cesspool.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi

Famous quotes with Cesspool

  • It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
    John Jay Chapman
  • To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.
    Howard Crosby
  • London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
    Garrett Hardin
  • We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
    Carl Paladino

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