as in sink
a place of great vice and corruption
over the decades the once-respectable neighborhood had become an urban cesspool
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Similarly, Musk has transformed Twitter into a dull, fetid cesspool of White nationalism and paranoid lies.
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Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
Other toilets of the same type — known unflatteringly as large-capacity cesspools — were removed proactively in the Angeles National Forest, officials said.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
Each was a fair question that, instead of serving as an opportunity to inform viewers, got dumped into the cesspool of anti-media hostility.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
Trump’s political presence has elucidated mainstream hip-hop’s decay into a cesspool of violent, ignorant, bigoted patriarchy.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
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Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
Other toilets of the same type — known unflatteringly as large-capacity cesspools — were removed proactively in the Angeles National Forest, officials said.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
Each was a fair question that, instead of serving as an opportunity to inform viewers, got dumped into the cesspool of anti-media hostility.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
Trump’s political presence has elucidated mainstream hip-hop’s decay into a cesspool of violent, ignorant, bigoted patriarchy.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Cesspool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cesspool. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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