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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Use soap on your water bottle In 2017, a team of researchers tested 90 reusable water bottles from a Midwestern college campus and determined that the portable drinking vessel can be a cesspool of pathogens.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Oct. 2025 -
At worst, as an antisemitic and anti-American cesspool.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Gomorrah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Gomorrah. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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