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Definition of festering:
Synonyms:
purulency, maturation, growing, pussy, putrid, purulence, ontogeny, infected, septic, growth, ripening, purulent, sanies, ontogenesis, pus, suppuration, maturement, development, ichor.
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disintegrated (part of speech: adjective)
- dilapidated,
- decomposed,
- rotten,
- mortified,
- molten,
- broken,
- dissected,
- anatomized,
- degenerated,
- disintegrated,
- spoiled,
- gangrenous,
- dissolved,
- crumbled,
- turned,
- putrefied,
- shattered,
- decayed
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unclean (part of speech: adjective)
- icky,
- septic,
- foul,
- filthy,
- scatological,
- defiled,
- muddy,
- grimy,
- mucky,
- odious,
- unclean,
- shabby,
- sordid,
- grungy,
- insalubrious,
- impure,
- squalid,
- grubby,
- unhygenic,
- smutty,
- scruffy,
- untidy,
- fetid,
- dusty,
- disgusting,
- sloppy,
- putrid,
- dirty,
- unsanitary,
- infectious,
- crummy,
- slovenly,
- murky,
- offensive,
- obscene,
- toxic,
- dingy
Usage examples:
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As I looked at her, I marvelled that she had found it possible to forsake all that was fair and lovely in life, to dare ignore caste, to deliberately face ridicule and insult and the scornful anger of her own kind, for the sake of the filthy scum festering in the sinkholes of the world.
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This causes the festering of his wound, and it torments and pains him the more because he dares not utter what he fain would say.
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Clemens in his next letter declared that Rice's reports might be parliamentary enough, but that they covered with glittering technicalities the most festering mass of misstatement, and even crime.