as in dump
a dirty or messy place
the frat house was a pigsty the morning after the bacchanal
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Recent Examples of pigsty
De Wet claims Olivier then ordered him to dispose of their bodies in a pigsty — an act prosecutors believe was meant to destroy evidence.
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Christina Coulter, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Regard your property as an investment in a pigsty, and visitors will treat it thus.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
And the ungrateful pig got a solid slap from the pigsty owners.
—Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
The millions of gallons of waste that the pigs generated each year stank horribly and polluted the air and water, turning an otherwise pleasant town into a pigsty.
—Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
Using a nearly monochromatic mix of black ink and photographic stills, Kantor imagines the moment when Haim escaped a group of Nazis by hiding in a pigsty.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
James Scotto See it for yourselves Brooklyn: The president and the mayor should take a walk to see what a pigsty Floyd Bennett Field has become.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
The authorities raided his hospital, killed one of his co-workers, and threw the battered body of another into a pigsty for the hogs to devour.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Authorities imprisoned many imams and converted many mosques into barns, warehouses, and even pigsties.
—Haiyun Ma, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2023
Christina Coulter, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Regard your property as an investment in a pigsty, and visitors will treat it thus.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
And the ungrateful pig got a solid slap from the pigsty owners.
—Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
The millions of gallons of waste that the pigs generated each year stank horribly and polluted the air and water, turning an otherwise pleasant town into a pigsty.
—Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
Using a nearly monochromatic mix of black ink and photographic stills, Kantor imagines the moment when Haim escaped a group of Nazis by hiding in a pigsty.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
James Scotto See it for yourselves Brooklyn: The president and the mayor should take a walk to see what a pigsty Floyd Bennett Field has become.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
The authorities raided his hospital, killed one of his co-workers, and threw the battered body of another into a pigsty for the hogs to devour.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Authorities imprisoned many imams and converted many mosques into barns, warehouses, and even pigsties.
—Haiyun Ma, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigsty
Noun
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In December, a 10-day-old baby girl was found dead in a garbage dump in the city of Baghpat.—
Aishwarya S. Iyer,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Other improvements can include the cleaning up of dump sites and new parks.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Boaters in Fort Lauderdale will soon be able to skip the mess — and help keep the city’s waterways cleaner — thanks to a new sewage pumpout vessel launching next spring.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
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But this mess, about a garage band that starts to see a hint of success and is immediately torn apart by the usual rock-movie clichés, never really gets going.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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If the Hogs couldn’t win the day in their pigpen, with Bryce Young sidelined since the second quarter with a sprained shoulder, after scoring 23 straight points in the midst of a rare, extended Alabama meltdown, will this ridiculous streak ever end?—
Kevin Scarbinsky | Special to AL.com,
al,
2 Oct. 2022
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Police came back the next day and found the boy's remains in the family's pigpen.—
Christine Pelisek,
Peoplemag,
12 Aug. 2022
Noun
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For patients with eyelid infections, this buildup is a common cause of dryness, itchiness, eyelash loss and even recurrent sties.—
Kameryn Griesser,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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Vance's office announced the trip on Sunday, describing it as one dedicated to learning about Greenlandic culture with stops at historical sties and its national dogsled race.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Buffalo’s forward depth has already been tested early in the season, and Danforth is a versatile player who helps the Sabres plug holes in the bottom six.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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When the Chicago rat hole went viral, Magle and his team considered how the mark was made.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Far from being the hellholes that Trump and his minions constantly depict, cities such as New York and Boston and Seattle are already desirable places to live—witness their housing pressures.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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Who wants to work to separate family members from each other or put people in a hellhole in the Everglades?—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Pigsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigsty. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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