as in dump
a dirty or messy place
"That house is such a sty that I'm never setting foot in there again," she said with a shudder
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Recent Examples of sty
For patients with eyelid infections, this buildup is a common cause of dryness, itchiness, eyelash loss and even recurrent sties.
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Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
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
The designation will bring international recognition to the sties, which aren’t well known even to many Ohioans.
—Susan Glaser, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
We're admittedly smitten with this stage-to-sty story, which is apparently a sequel.
—Country Living, 7 Sep. 2022
Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
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
The designation will bring international recognition to the sties, which aren’t well known even to many Ohioans.
—Susan Glaser, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
We're admittedly smitten with this stage-to-sty story, which is apparently a sequel.
—Country Living, 7 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sty
Noun
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In a new Instagram photo dump recapping her 30th birthday celebrations, Brittany Mahomes shared a photo of the Grammy winner, 35, joining in on the party — and placing her martini on the mother of three’s head!—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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And then there was the dump single.—
Doug Padilla,
Oc Register,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If the mess-maker is solid, use a spatula, dull kitchen knife, or the edge of a credit card to lift it from the surface of the upholstery.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 2025
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The first crazy thing that happens to the movie Smurls is when a kitchen chandelier almost falls on them, though the most visceral is when oldest sister Dawn Smurl (Beau Gadsdon) suddenly vomits up pieces of glass, leaving the sink and her face a bloody mess.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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Regard your property as an investment in a pigsty, and visitors will treat it thus.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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As the Republican candidate stood on the fifth-hole putting green, a Secret Service agent was riding a golf cart in a security sweep of the sixth hole and noticed someone hiding behind a chain-link fence in the southeast corner of the course.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Untangle the roots and spread them out in their planting holes.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 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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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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The place where Dante cast endless sinners, upside down in hellholes of their own carving, or in the tangled forest of suicides, or with the fratricides in the ninth circle, all of them eternally condemned.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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“Sty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sty. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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