feculent

comparative more feculent · superlative most feculent · alternative faeculent · alternative archaic fæculent

1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities

   At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.

   1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 84

   Synonyms: turbid, sullied, foul, filthy, fetid