Definition of Cesspool

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Definition of Cesspool
	Cesspool A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth. Related Definitions: Any, Cistern, Collect, Course, Drain, Filth, In, Matter, Of, Or, Privy, Receptacle, Sedimentary, Superfluous, Termination, The, To, Vault

Cesspool Quotations

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Garrett Hardin

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
Alexander Payne

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
John Jay Chapman

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
George Sanders

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.
Howard Crosby

Cesspool Translations

cesspool in German is Senkgrube
cesspool in Swedish is avloppsbrunn, kloakbrunn

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