Word: cloacal
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...manhole, climbed 20 feet underground, and there she was. Waving flashlights, crying "So boss," they backed the baffled animal through the echoing pipes, eventually got her turned around, past the Newark line, and out into the open air. All told, the cow had covered some twelve miles of cloacal New Jersey...
Resourceful, ruthless and self-assured, Goya rode the crest of this cloacal flood. A ram-headed man of enormous appetites, he ate himself to the verge of apoplexy, begot 20 legitimate children (only one survived the plague-ridden rigors of Spanish life), became the lover of the beautiful and powerful Duchess of Alba, a favorite of the harlot Queen, the most sought-after society portraitist of his time...
...worshipper of James Joyce. "To my mind he is a very able man, but not different in kind from other able men; only more brilliant and ruthless than they, and with a preference for what H. G. Wells has styled the cloacal. In that field he is a past-master." Aldous Huxley "is still baffled by the number of entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. . . . He has a greater capacity for wisdom than any encyclopaedia-stuffed man of this era; and may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will...