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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a cesspool" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, place, or environment that is morally or socially corrupt, or literally a pit for waste.
Example: "The town's political scene has become a cesspool of corruption and deceit."
Alternatives: "a den of iniquity" or "a moral quagmire".
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basketball as a cesspool of corruption.
"It smelled like a cesspool," he said.
The place smelled like a cesspool.
Others see a cesspool of gritty squalor.
"The buffet car was a cesspool.
Another basin is probably a cesspool.
He dismisses the countryside as a cesspool.
"I'm a cesspool of stereotypes," it says.
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Disgust and dismay over Oakland police sex scandal as department is called 'a cesspool'.
DROWNED IN A CESSPOOL.; Body of Boy, Missing Since Sunday, Found Near His Home.
Archives|DROWNED IN A CESSPOOL.; Body of Boy, Missing Since Sunday, Found Near His Home.
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