as in dung
solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal
an ordinance that requires dog walkers to remove their animal's excrement from city streets
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For Martin Luther, who famously threw his inkpot at the Devil, Satan was as elemental and omnipresent as excrement.
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James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The first displays a Funk icon, Arneson’s John with Art (1964), a lumpy, stoneware toilet sculpture with ceramic excrement in the bowl and gestural splashes of color on the tank.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
What a sober, heartbreaking affirmation of life, and play, and sensuality, there in Paris, beside the turbid Seine, with the trenches — brimming with mud, death and excrement, not far to the east.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Hypodermic needles, bags of marijuana, moldy clothes, human excrement, tires and condoms littered the street, according to neighbors’ accounts and photos taken by Malone.
—Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
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James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The first displays a Funk icon, Arneson’s John with Art (1964), a lumpy, stoneware toilet sculpture with ceramic excrement in the bowl and gestural splashes of color on the tank.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
What a sober, heartbreaking affirmation of life, and play, and sensuality, there in Paris, beside the turbid Seine, with the trenches — brimming with mud, death and excrement, not far to the east.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Hypodermic needles, bags of marijuana, moldy clothes, human excrement, tires and condoms littered the street, according to neighbors’ accounts and photos taken by Malone.
—Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
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