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feculent [fek-yuh-luhnt]

adjective:
1 full of dregs or fecal matter; filthy, scummy, muddy, or foul

Examples:

Making matters worse for the hapless man, his feculent pants were pulled down a little during his escapade, partially revealing his underwear as he stood cuffed in front of an officer. (Yaron Steinbuch, UK suspect trying to flee cops lands neck-deep in cow manure pit , New York Post, December 2020)

Every time an old, smarmy sitcom, or a pallid network drama, or a toy ad that masqueraded as a cringeworthy children's cartoon gets dredged from the feculent muck of history's lake bed and rebooted for a contemporary audience, our cultural blood pressure incrementally drops, our collective pulse grows that much threadier, our soft tissues go just a scosh more necrotic. (Glen Weldon, New 'Rocky And Bullwinkle' Is Something We Hope You'll Really Like, NPR, May 2018)

It was powerful and ocean-worthy and maneuverable, Mr Byrnes said. Though its storage tanks are empty, the feculent odor of its cargo is unmistakable. (Corey Kilgannon, For Sale: Aging Boat That Had an Unenviable Job, The New York Times, April 2015)

It hit him squarely in the face, and the feculent contents streamed down to his chin. (Charles Heber Clark, Out of the Hurly-Burly)

In due time he was dragged across, half strangled, and dreadfully beslubbered by the feculent waters. (Ambrose Bierce, 'The City of Political Distinction')

Origin:

'muddy, turbid, full of dregs or impurities,' late 15c, from Latin faeculentus 'abounding in dregs,' from stem faec- 'sediment, dregs' + adjective suffix -ulentus 'full of.' (Online Etymology Dictionary)