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• n  a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

• McCain, to his credit, has never been shy about admitting he swims in the same campaign-finance cesspool as everybody else.
• This place is a cesspoolgotta address the gifts, free trips, the revolving-door lobbying jobs for staff members.
• Volunteer workersengineers, sandhogs, retired miners, cesspool diggersrushed to help.

• cesspit
• sink
• sump

News & Articles

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• The 'Star' Tries to Control Its Comment Section; Comment Section Nutjobs Get Mad
  While for a while it seemed really fashionable for Star writers to badmouth the comment section on their own website (by my recollection, Tim Steller called it a "cesspool" when Mark Evans hosted the Buckmaster Show a few weeks ago), today Senior Editor Debbie Kornmiller announced that the site would go to exclusive Facebook-based commenting next week : We will begin using Facebook’s commenting ...
  June 10, 2013 - Tucson Weekly
• Your Comments: Clinton Square fountain 'does not fit any purpose correctly'
  Syracuse.com wade into an editorial that asked whether Syracuse's iconic fountain was a wading pool or a cesspool.
  June 7, 2013 - The Post-Standard

Quotes

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• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York Daily News
  Today, the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse, and there is no way to get out of the cesspool created by itself,President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the UN General Assembly.
• Eric Schmidt in AdAge.com (subscription)
  Brands are the solution, not the problem,Mr. Schmidt said. "Brands are how you sort out the cesspool."
• Ben Nelson in BusinessWeek
  Today, Washington is a cesspool of gotcha politics,Nelson said. "It's so out of control that you can't even shake hands in the hallway with a Future Farmer of America without people questioning your motives."