cesspit

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Various substitutes have been tried for the cesspit, which retain the principle of the hand removal of excreta.

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  • In short, it's a cesspit: a vast red-bricked jungle of —  A Tangled Web
  • We are all looking forward to it immensely, particularly as it will then bring your next target into line, the one who is ultimately responsible for this politics of the cesspit: —  British Blogs
  • Now the denier whitches say that our industrial society will be destroyed BUT as my brother says 'so what' if the UK slides into a third world cesspit type hellhole its a small price to pay for the UK leading the world in a moral crusade fighting a harmless trace atmospheric gas! —  British Blogs
  • Under the great stewardship, guidance and rise of paedophilia this great nation of ours is now a bankrupt cesspit. —  Guy Fawkes' blog
  • Filmdrunk is everything you want to know about movies, the people in them and the cultural cesspit known as Hollywood. —  CollegeHumor: Recent Articles
 

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/ˈsɛspɪt/
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