Crossword-Solution: CESSPOOL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Cesspool | n. | A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “CESSPOOL”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| AUGEAN stable | 1 answer |
| Collection pit for filthy water | 1 answer |
| Corruption metaphor | 1 answer |
| Dirty and disgusting place | 1 answer |
| Hotbed of corruption | 1 answer |
| Iniquitous spot | 1 answer |
| waste water and sewage flow into it | 1 answer |
| WELL sunk to receive drainage from water-closet | 2 answers |
| Cistern | 8 answers |
| FILTHY place | 10 answers |
| sump | 14 answers |
| Tank | 23 answers |
| DEN ___ | 32 answers |
| Sink | 54 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "CESSPOOL"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
14 +1
New Suggestion for "CESSPOOL"
Related word tools
Sentences with CESSPOOL (5)
Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Graves mentions a captain of the yeomanry corps who while investigating the report that 500 pikes were concealed at the bottom of a cesspool in one of the city markets superintended the emptying of the cesspool, at the bottom of which the arms were found.
The government which Penguinia had freely given itself was called by such names as cesspool and drain in several eloquent speeches.
The worst scandals of the eighteenth century were relatively harmless by the side of this, which smirched executive, judiciary, banks, corporate systems, professions, and people, all the great active forces of society, in one dirty cesspool of vulgar corruption.
And, for that reason, I praise Thee, O my God, for having made me the cesspool of the world.” One day, a rumour ran through the holy city, and even reached the ears of the hermit: a very great personage, a man occupying a high position, the Prefect of the Alexandrian fleet, Lucius Aurelius Cotta, was about to visit the city--was, indeed, now on his way.
Quotes with CESSPOOL (3)
Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here’s the truth: life is a catastrophe. The basic fact of existence — of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do — is a catastrophe. Forget all this ridiculous ‘Our Town’ nonsense everyone talks: the miracle of a newborn babe, the joy of one simple blossom, Life…
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2017–2022).