feculent

Etymology

From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.

adj

  1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities
    At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon. 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 84

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