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Gomorrah

noun

gə-ˈmȯr-ə

Definition of Gomorrah

as in sink

a place of great vice and corruption looks upon Las Vegas as a Gomorrah that undermines traditional values

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cesspool

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The former may be a cesspool that rots our brains and amplifies ethnic hatred, but its dangers don’t compare to the dangers of RSI.

— Sigal Samuel, Vox, 27 Oct. 2026
In Levittown, the cost-cutting builders at first hadn’t even bothered with tanks and had installed cesspools instead—three decades later, the suburb’s sewer system was still under construction.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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