as in sink
a place of great vice and corruption
over the decades the once-respectable neighborhood had become an urban cesspool
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Yet on war, peace and Iran, the insightful gut Trump claims to possess is looking more and more like a cesspool of adolescent-level judgment.
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Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
These improvements amount to little more than empty symbolic gestures when our parks immediately revert to looking like cesspools.
—Rafael Perez, Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
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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Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
These improvements amount to little more than empty symbolic gestures when our parks immediately revert to looking like cesspools.
—Rafael Perez, Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
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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“Cesspool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cesspool. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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