pigsty

noun

ˈpig-ˌstī How to pronounce pigsty (audio)
Definition of pigstynext
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. — 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 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
  1. dump
  2. mess
  3. pigpen
  4. sty
  5. hole
  6. hellhole
Noun
  • If power fails or core temperatures rise, the system shuts down and the liquid fuel salt drains by gravity into passive dump tanks without operator action.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Now, for the 2027 model year, Mahindra has given the Roxor an optional dump bed.
    — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of dump
Noun
  • If Uncle Sam does not change course, America’s unsustainable fiscal mess will result in adverse economic, national security, foreign relations, and domestic tranquility consequences.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Andrew Schaefer, a forty-two-year-old father in Orlando, Florida, who helps people out of tax messes, also likes to wager on elections.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of mess
Noun
  • Rainn Wilson, the actor who portrayed him, has a pigpen.
    — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Police came back the next day and found the boy's remains in the family's pigpen.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
Definition of pigpen
Noun
  • The result leaves nearly every performer fumbling for traction in Serkis and Stoller’s muddy-yet-gutless cinematic sty.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In 1981, he was elected mayor, if not quite the Zohran Mamdani of the Reagan revolution (Mamdani won by two hundred thousand votes, not ten), then at least a sty in the Gipper’s eye.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Definition of sty
Noun
  • Midway through the third quarter, Riley burst through a wide-open hole and beat the Rams’ final defensive back for speed to race down the sideline for a 31-yard touchdown and his third of the night.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 8 Nov. 2026
  • This month, a series of explosions will blow holes in the former SS United States, sinking it some 25 miles off the Florida panhandle to become the world’s largest artificial reef.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of hole
Noun
  • This all started back in April when Black trans manager and bartender Olivia Rhodes claimed that the place was a hellhole for gays to work.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The communists want to turn America into a Third World country, into a hellhole of crime and filth.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of hellhole

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