as in sink
a place of great vice and corruption
over the decades the once-respectable neighborhood had become an urban cesspool
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At least these are at least attempting some kind of even-handed moderation, unlike the platform formerly known as Twitter, which has become the cesspool of X under Elon Musk’s ownership.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
Maybe the judge presiding will have the courage and intellect to break up this cesspool of crime.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
But state law can't supercede federal law, so there's nothing Michigan lawmakers can do to break through the scum on the surface of these cesspools.
—M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2024
Facebook started out as a campus directory for college students and then evolved into a cesspool of misinformation that also sells VR headsets.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
Maybe the judge presiding will have the courage and intellect to break up this cesspool of crime.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
But state law can't supercede federal law, so there's nothing Michigan lawmakers can do to break through the scum on the surface of these cesspools.
—M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2024
Facebook started out as a campus directory for college students and then evolved into a cesspool of misinformation that also sells VR headsets.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
See All Example Sentences for cesspool
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“Cesspool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cesspool. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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