Definitions for cesspool

cesspool cess·pool

Spelling: [ses-pool]
IPA: /ˈsɛsˌpul/

Cesspool is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in cesspool (celoopss).

Definitions for cesspool

noun

  1. a cistern, well, or pit for retaining the sediment of a drain or for receiving the sewage from a house.
  2. any filthy receptacle or place.
  3. any place of moral filth or immorality:

Origin of cesspool

1575-85; cess (Italian cesso privy Latin rēcessus recess, place of retirement) + pool1

Examples for cesspool

It's perpetuating a cesspool on Facebook for those who would perpetuate real world violence and rape.

On another, more macro level, did you find Europe to be such a cesspool of intrigue?

In the cesspool of cynicism that is Indian politics, we thought his train ride struck a blow instead for a degree of idealism.

The vote on Sunday could take Ukraine toward a modern functioning democracy or plunge it back into a cesspool of corruption.

It allows me to stomach the pathetic shenanigans of the cesspool of Washington, D.C.

I should be the first to be ready to clean out any cesspool you like.

The "cesspool question" had already been a subject of dispute between them.

All the vice and misery of the country got thrown into that cesspool.

When we pass a cesspool we close our noses and try not to breathe.

Scattering flowers upon a cesspool of iniquity will not purify it.

Word Value for cesspool
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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