cesspool

Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

He fell into the cesspool and got covered from head to toe.

I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Back then, our grandparents had a cesspool which they sometimes had to empty.