cesspool

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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Recent Examples of cesspool As flames tore through Pacific Palisades on Tuesday, X became a cesspool of misinformation and anti-DEI attacks targeting LA Mayor Karen Bass and LAFD chief Kristin Crowley, who is the first woman and LGBT person in the job. Axios, 10 Jan. 2025 A couple of weeks back, apropos of nothing, a small cadre in the cesspool formerly known as Twitter decided that the most important cultural irritant of the moment was the rise of visible ASL interpreters at press conferences and public events. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2025 The platform has itself been called a cesspool, rife with hateful rhetoric and falsehoods. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025 Let’s state the fact not often discussed: Facebook is a cesspool of misinformation, child trafficking, and violent crime. Charlie Fink, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 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 3 Mar. 2025.

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