as in dump
a dirty or messy place
"That house is such a sty that I'm never setting foot in there again," she said with a shudder
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Recent Examples of sty
The designation will bring international recognition to the sties, which aren’t well known even to many Ohioans.
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Susan Glaser, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
We're admittedly smitten with this stage-to-sty story, which is apparently a sequel.
—Country Living, 7 Sep. 2022
Susan Glaser, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
We're admittedly smitten with this stage-to-sty story, which is apparently a sequel.
—Country Living, 7 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sty
Noun
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.—
Tim Bontemps,
chicagotribune.com,
21 June 2017
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.—
Andres Viglucci,
miamiherald,
15 June 2017
Noun
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Over the last month, the Rangers have been a mess at five-on-five — more than usual — and have had a bafflingly bad power play.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Though the storm largely subsided by Tuesday morning, another weather system forecast is expected to spread a wintry mess from Texas to the East Coast later this week, which means people likely won't be able to put down the shovels anytime soon.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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James Scotto See it for yourselves Brooklyn: The president and the mayor should take a walk to see what a pigsty Floyd Bennett Field has become.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2024
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Authorities imprisoned many imams and converted many mosques into barns, warehouses, and even pigsties.—
Haiyun Ma,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Sep. 2023
Noun
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The pieces vary in size and shape; a few have small holes cut in them.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
13 Jan. 2025
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Some holes can’t be filled, and no writer, no matter how skilled, can return their subject to anything truly resembling life.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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No pigpen-cleanup required!—
Perri Ormont Blumberg,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2021
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If the Hogs couldn’t win the day in their pigpen, with Bryce Young sidelined since the second quarter with a sprained shoulder, after scoring 23 straight points in the midst of a rare, extended Alabama meltdown, will this ridiculous streak ever end?—
Kevin Scarbinsky | Special to AL.com,
al,
2 Oct. 2022
Noun
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Armstrong thinking Vegas is a total hellhole of a city hasn’t stopped him from showing up for the Green Day fans there.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2024
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The 11-foot-tall bronze sculpture of the hero of a 1987 movie that made Detroit look like a flaming hellhole is on its back in a building somewhere within the 24-acre footprint of Eastern Market.—
Neal Rubin,
Detroit Free Press,
11 July 2024
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“Sty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sty. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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