dungish
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]dungish
- (uncommon) Pertaining to dung, ordurous; (figuratively) filthy or revolting.
- 2004, John Gatta, Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment ...:
- […] humanity's dungish ways, […]
- 1784, John Bunyan, The Whole Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ, page 1300:
- […] joy followeth; so doth peace, quietness, content, and love; which is also the fulfilling of the law: yet not from such dungish principles as yours, for so the apostle calls them, Phil. iii, but from the Holy Ghost itself: