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cesspool

/ses-pool/US // ˈsɛsˌpul //UK // (ˈsɛsˌpuːl) //

粪坑,粪池,污水池,污水坑

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cistern, well, or pit for retaining the sediment of a drain or for receiving the sewage from a house.
    • : any filthy receptacle or place.
    • : any place of moral filth or immorality: a cesspool of iniquity.

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Examples

  • None of that tracked with the toxic cesspool of negativity that permeated the day, or even with the narrative that NBC was trying to spin.

  • “It’s not like someone wakes up one day and, all of a sudden, their site has become this cesspool of hate speech and extremism,” Fisher-Birch said.

  • Brand safety and suitability have been top-of-mind for marketers concerns about content on these platforms — cesspools of hate and misinformation are not great places for most brands to be.

  • On another, more macro level, did you find Europe to be such a cesspool of intrigue?

  • The vote on Sunday could take Ukraine toward a modern functioning democracy or plunge it back into a cesspool of corruption.

  • It allows me to stomach the pathetic shenanigans of the cesspool of Washington, D.C.

  • In the cesspool of cynicism that is Indian politics, we thought his train ride struck a blow instead for a degree of idealism.

  • Discouting the gross factor of swimming in that saline cesspool, there are some awesome images.

  • I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.

  • They are more fickle and cowardly than any other people in this cesspool which they call God's earth.

  • All the vice and misery of the country got thrown into that cesspool.

  • Once again I told her of my fear, my anxiety for her safety among those rough men in that cesspool of iniquity.

  • I had rescued him from one of his periodical plunges into the cesspool of debauch, and he was peaked, pallid, penitent.