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		Definition of cesspit in English: cesspitnoun ˈsɛspɪtˈsɛsˌpɪt 1A pit for the disposal of liquid waste and sewage.  Example sentencesExamples -  Vacuum tankers are used to empty the cesspits when they become full.
 -  Flood waters in the eastern regions of Trinidad have subsided, and clean-up crews have now begun clearing up overflowing cesspits and clogged waterways.
 -  C. quinquefasciatus is the principal vector of human filariasis, and breeds in cesspits and drains.
 -  Our son found his way into a disused cesspit and then, going barefoot, picked up an infection, which required regular injections in his backside.
 -  The Thames was a polluted mess and cesspits within the city were a constant source of contamination.
 -  The sanitation of Windsor Castle was almost as bad as the slums of London, with seeping cesspits polluting the water supply.
 -  ‘If it dies,’ I enquired, ‘can I chuck it into our cesspit?’
 -  Snow was now certain that the well had been contaminated with infected sewage - either from the sewer or the many nearby cesspits.
 -  Parasites have also been found in human coprolites and medieval cesspits.
 -  The two men in dark glasses descended from the truck and asked him if his toilet cesspit was full.
 -  We showed them our caravans, our day rooms, our cesspit and our toilets and they told my father that all he had to do was plant a row of three trees to shield us from the road.
 -  Now there are fears it could happen again in the neighbourhood, where there are known to be other redundant cesspits.
 -  Trucks that used to empty cesspits and septic tanks can no longer be used due to a lack of tyres, batteries and other spare parts.
 -  They quickly discovered that the barracks hospital had been constructed over a contaminated cesspit and that the patients were literally wallowing in their own sewage.
 -  I will have to maintain an aura of dignity even if I am thrown into a cesspit.
 -  The cesspit sitting under the town is full to overflowing.
 -  The man said he first started getting pain after a construction accident where he held a 500 lb concrete block from falling into a cesspit.
 -  Neighbours fear their houses may fall into a cesspit after a 25 ft-deep hole opened up in their gardens.
 -  When the great social reformer Lord Shaftesbury visited one house, he went into the cellar - where a family was living - and found that the sewage from a nearby cesspit had leaked right under their floor boards.
 -  Some of them even brought mud from the garden and worse yet, buckets full of sludge from the cesspit.
 
 - 1.1 A disgusting or corrupt place.
 the affair threatened to be a cesspit of scandal  Example sentencesExamples -  Over the ensuing months, the Petrov royal commission became a political cesspit.
 -  His scabs have become cesspits for the vilest strain of puss and weep day after day with no sign of improvement.
 -  Whether you think Montreal is a stinking cesspit wallowing knee-deep in its own filth or believe that our island's a green gem, next Monday, April 19, is your opportunity to voice your views to the person who has to listen.
 -  He'd been part of political groups since he was 17, as London was ‘a big cesspit of corruption’ to him.
 -  Hollywood - the cesspit that is poisoning the world via cultural globalisation - has incongruously produced what may well be the most devotional work of art in this decade.
 -  Don't listen to him - he reckons that every city is a hellish cesspit of hatred and evil.
 -  No wonder some people now think that Fairfax Press, to which this paper belongs, is an intellectual cesspit.
 -  The religious fundamentalists who exercise such influence in some US states view the East and West coasts as cesspits of vice.
 -  To some, this implies that ‘blue states’ are cesspits of morality, as if bordering on water causes depravity and sin.
 -  Athole Still once described the football world as a cesspit and, as a former journalist, he should have known what he was talking about.
 -  In the cesspit of Scottish Labour politics, policy doesn't get a look in.
 -  The reason I'm banging on about Kant, is that this test exposes the moral cesspit of international relations.
 -  Their son Adie, a promising scholar, crosses the boundary into the cesspit of violence which marks the lives of his lover Sita and her psychotic brother Jean.
 -  Was it directed at Bali as a heathen cesspit full of pleasure-seeking infidels?
 -  Even before his bid was successful there were plans at Manchester United to build a regional casino and so make money out of the cesspit of misery that the evil gambling trade promotes.
 -  There's nothing wrong with sloshing about in a cesspit of anecdotes from the flash trash world of English football, as Hall does in his Sunday tabloid column.
 -  Don't make me laugh, it hurts (especially after the lid got lifted the latest cesspit in mutual funds).
 -  It is amazing how much of a cesspit of advertising the Government has created, when it could be helping out so many young people, so many families, and so many health initiatives around this country.
 -  Even at superstar level, most rock bands are cesspits of raging ego, petty bitterness, monstrous vanity, sordid self-abuse and very bad hair days.
 -  Sometimes the world looks like a total cesspit, you would hope that God would want to change that.
 
  
 
 Origin   Mid 19th century: from cess (the supposed base of cesspool) + pit1.    Definition of cesspit in US English: cesspitnounˈsɛsˌpɪtˈsesˌpit 1A pit for the disposal of liquid waste and sewage.  Example sentencesExamples -  Neighbours fear their houses may fall into a cesspit after a 25 ft-deep hole opened up in their gardens.
 -  They quickly discovered that the barracks hospital had been constructed over a contaminated cesspit and that the patients were literally wallowing in their own sewage.
 -  The two men in dark glasses descended from the truck and asked him if his toilet cesspit was full.
 -  I will have to maintain an aura of dignity even if I am thrown into a cesspit.
 -  Now there are fears it could happen again in the neighbourhood, where there are known to be other redundant cesspits.
 -  Some of them even brought mud from the garden and worse yet, buckets full of sludge from the cesspit.
 -  The man said he first started getting pain after a construction accident where he held a 500 lb concrete block from falling into a cesspit.
 -  Trucks that used to empty cesspits and septic tanks can no longer be used due to a lack of tyres, batteries and other spare parts.
 -  ‘If it dies,’ I enquired, ‘can I chuck it into our cesspit?’
 -  When the great social reformer Lord Shaftesbury visited one house, he went into the cellar - where a family was living - and found that the sewage from a nearby cesspit had leaked right under their floor boards.
 -  The Thames was a polluted mess and cesspits within the city were a constant source of contamination.
 -  Flood waters in the eastern regions of Trinidad have subsided, and clean-up crews have now begun clearing up overflowing cesspits and clogged waterways.
 -  C. quinquefasciatus is the principal vector of human filariasis, and breeds in cesspits and drains.
 -  Vacuum tankers are used to empty the cesspits when they become full.
 -  The sanitation of Windsor Castle was almost as bad as the slums of London, with seeping cesspits polluting the water supply.
 -  Parasites have also been found in human coprolites and medieval cesspits.
 -  The cesspit sitting under the town is full to overflowing.
 -  Snow was now certain that the well had been contaminated with infected sewage - either from the sewer or the many nearby cesspits.
 -  We showed them our caravans, our day rooms, our cesspit and our toilets and they told my father that all he had to do was plant a row of three trees to shield us from the road.
 -  Our son found his way into a disused cesspit and then, going barefoot, picked up an infection, which required regular injections in his backside.
 
 - 1.1 A disgusting or corrupt place or situation.
 the affair threatened to be a cesspit of scandal  Example sentencesExamples -  Hollywood - the cesspit that is poisoning the world via cultural globalisation - has incongruously produced what may well be the most devotional work of art in this decade.
 -  Don't make me laugh, it hurts (especially after the lid got lifted the latest cesspit in mutual funds).
 -  He'd been part of political groups since he was 17, as London was ‘a big cesspit of corruption’ to him.
 -  The reason I'm banging on about Kant, is that this test exposes the moral cesspit of international relations.
 -  No wonder some people now think that Fairfax Press, to which this paper belongs, is an intellectual cesspit.
 -  Their son Adie, a promising scholar, crosses the boundary into the cesspit of violence which marks the lives of his lover Sita and her psychotic brother Jean.
 -  In the cesspit of Scottish Labour politics, policy doesn't get a look in.
 -  Whether you think Montreal is a stinking cesspit wallowing knee-deep in its own filth or believe that our island's a green gem, next Monday, April 19, is your opportunity to voice your views to the person who has to listen.
 -  The religious fundamentalists who exercise such influence in some US states view the East and West coasts as cesspits of vice.
 -  Even before his bid was successful there were plans at Manchester United to build a regional casino and so make money out of the cesspit of misery that the evil gambling trade promotes.
 -  Even at superstar level, most rock bands are cesspits of raging ego, petty bitterness, monstrous vanity, sordid self-abuse and very bad hair days.
 -  His scabs have become cesspits for the vilest strain of puss and weep day after day with no sign of improvement.
 -  Was it directed at Bali as a heathen cesspit full of pleasure-seeking infidels?
 -  Athole Still once described the football world as a cesspit and, as a former journalist, he should have known what he was talking about.
 -  Sometimes the world looks like a total cesspit, you would hope that God would want to change that.
 -  To some, this implies that ‘blue states’ are cesspits of morality, as if bordering on water causes depravity and sin.
 -  There's nothing wrong with sloshing about in a cesspit of anecdotes from the flash trash world of English football, as Hall does in his Sunday tabloid column.
 -  It is amazing how much of a cesspit of advertising the Government has created, when it could be helping out so many young people, so many families, and so many health initiatives around this country.
 -  Over the ensuing months, the Petrov royal commission became a political cesspit.
 -  Don't listen to him - he reckons that every city is a hellish cesspit of hatred and evil.
 
  
 
 Origin   Mid 19th century: from cess (the supposed base of cesspool) + pit.     |