ordure
Foul bodily excrement
Ordure is excrement or dung—a formal or literary word for feces.
The term extends to anything morally foul or corrupt: the ordure of political scandal.
It appears most often in elevated prose where a writer wants to discuss filth without using blunter words.
Solid digestive waste
- dungAnimal fecal matter
- manureAnimal waste as fertilizer
- droppingsAnimal excrement deposits
- stoolBackless sitting furniture
guano · sewage · nightsoil · muck · slurry · cesspool · privy · latrine
Loose dry earth
- grimeIngrained surface dirt
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- slimeThick wet gunk
- muckFilthy wet dirt
foulness · uncleanliness · defilement · soiling · scum · crud · smut · nastiness
Extremely distasteful or offensive
- revoltingCausing strong disgust
- vileExtremely unpleasant or bad
- loathsomeArousing intense disgust
- nauseatingCausing urge to vomit
abhorrent · foul · putrid · rank · stinking · fetid · noisome · malodorous
Dishonest abuse of power
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- basenessMoral worthlessness
- degradationDecline in condition
- vilenessDespicable quality
turpitude · defilement · sordidness · obscenity · filth · smut · sleaze · indecency
feces
Solid digestive waste
stool · guano · sewage · nightsoil · muck · slurry · cesspool · privy · latrine · chamberpot
dirt
Loose dry earth
muck · foulness · uncleanliness · defilement · soiling · scum · crud · smut · nastiness · putridity
repugnant
Extremely distasteful or offensive
nauseating · abhorrent · foul · putrid · rank · stinking · fetid · noisome · malodorous · noxious
corruption
Dishonest abuse of power
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- basenessMoral worthlessness
- degradationDecline in condition
vileness · turpitude · defilement · sordidness · obscenity · filth · smut · sleaze · indecency · profanity
- filthdirt, grime, dirty, filthy, muck
- wastetrash, garbage, rubbish, refuse, debris
- bodily wastefeces, excrement, urine, poop, pee
- Fecesfeces, poop, dung, droppings, excrement
- manurecow manure, horse manure, chicken manure, pig manure, sheep manure
ordurecleanliness
Absence of dirt
purity · hygiene · sterility · spotlessness · immaculateness