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Meanings of cesspit in English

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pou mort

A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it.

pou mort
Usage of cesspit in English
1
He could fall in a cesspit and come up smelling like roses.
American Gods
2
She didn't look like she had ever set foot in the vile cesspit.
Dexter’s Final Cut
3
The auction house on the outskirts of Chicago didn't look like a cesspit.
When darkness comes
4
Like finding a single perfect lily floating on a cesspit.
Hex and the city
5
Sometimes Twitter is not just a cesspit full of people who love to hate.
The Irish Times
6
Your head like a cesspit, full of horrible speculation about what might have happened.
The blood spilt
7
And the cesspit described as possibly dating from the sixth century is, in fact, medieval.
The Irish Times
8
Now she lives in the heart of the junkie cesspit called the Lower East Side.
The Guardian
9
That might be a dragon's cesspit over there, yes.
Seraphina
10
Standing is a necessity.Truly a cesspit of everything that is crass about twenty-first century football.'
The Guardian
11
A cesspit should never be located under a dwelling.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
12
Periwinkle Street, on the other hand, was a cesspit.
Library of Souls
13
What were you doing in that White Court cesspit?
Turn coat
14
It was an open cesspit, a vast lagoon full of waste from the pig farm.
The Guardian
15
If they'd survived, they'd gone back into their emergence holes to whatever cesspit they came from.
Jacinto's Remnant
16
Instead of the moral cesspit it is now.
The unnatural inquirer
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