(a.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
(a.) Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dr Abby Innes European Institute, LSE • If David Cameron really wants to clean out the Augean stables of corruption, he should not use international summits to insinuate that corruption is only a foreign problem.
(2) But Clare Langan, a local resident and member of the campaign group King's Cliffe Waste Watchers, said she was bitterly disappointed that the green light had been given to Augean.
(3) But Melanie McCall, one of the campaigners opposing the Augean move near Peterborough, said: "People don't want to be guinea pigs.
(4) Every day its team of writers and editors interrogate claims ricocheting around the internet to determine if they are false, true or somewhere in the middle – a cleaning of the Augean stables for the digital era.
(5) There is evidence that Philip Hammond, the least gullible of defence secretaries, is starting to cleanse the Augean stables of defence spending.
(6) In a statement, Augean said: "We are very pleased that our planning application has withstood the close examination of the inquiry and that the secretary of state has upheld our proposals for East Northamptonshire Resource Management Facility.
(7) Augean, the waste management outfit, is expected to bring waste in to the east Northamptonshire site at King's Cliffe by road from Harwell in Oxfordshire, which was established in 1946 as Britain's first atomic energy research establishment.
(8) Planning permission had been denied by Northamptonshire county council and a local referendum had damned the scheme but Augean appealed to the secretary of state, saying the 250,000 tonnes would be mainly made up of relatively uncontaminated rubble and other debris.
(9) Edison Investment Research put out a note on Augean saying that this potentially lucrative waste business could "transform the economics within the group."
(10) A rival waste company, Augean, is trying to convince locals it should be allowed to dump nuclear waste at the East Northants Management Facility at Kings Cliffe village, near Peterborough.
(11) The saving grace is that he can present himself as a new broom, albeit with Augean stables rather than musty warehouses to be cleaned out.
(12) It is the farmer, according to Thoreau, whose "poor immortal soul" is "well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn 75ft by 40, its Augean stables never cleansed"; it is a farmer he encounters in the middle of the night, driving his livestock to a dawn appointment in Boston, while the unencumbered hermit returns to sleep in his cosy cabin.
(13) A British firm, Augean, is trying to do the same near Peterborough.
(14) Augean said it was satisfied there would be no "harm to our employees, the public or the environment".
(15) That doesn't even factor into the non-stop drama surrounding Donald Sterling and the Los Angeles Clippers as the league embarks on the sports franchise equivalent of cleaning the Augean Stables .
(16) The cleansing of the Blatcherite Augean stables has not happened.
(17) The haste with which senior people in the party are helpfully promising to clean Clegg's Augean Stables is striking.
Filthy
Definition:
(superl.) Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
Example Sentences:
(1) It led to a filthy, overcrowded camp housing 43 Bangladeshi workers at the heart of the polluted, industrial Musaffah area, next to car repair and welding businesses.
(2) You'd never ask anybody else how much they make, but because I am in a position where you are 'filthy rich' from a young age, it becomes a curiosity.
(3) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
(4) I climb the filthy stairwell and enter a small, dark reception area.
(5) Our people do not understand.” Chechnya’s press and information minister, Jambulat Umarov, wrote on Instagram that Novaya Gazeta should “apologise to the Chechen people” for the “filthy provocation” of suggesting gay people existed in Chechnya.
(6) But the filthy fiver, says Dr Ron Cutler, who led the study, could be the spark that lights the fire of an epidemic.
(7) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(8) There is heavy traffic, swollen by often badly maintained and old trucks and buses; huge landfill rubbish dumps which are sometimes set on fire; filthy industries just a few miles from the city; two coal-fired power stations; nearby intensive construction which generates choking clouds of dust; and, seasonally, smoke from crop burning in fields from farmland in neighbouring states.
(9) I want to say sweet, silly things, and pat the little heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty."
(10) If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.
(11) A federal anti-racism commission called that a bad decision that would have "serious consequences", In another ruling on racism issues, the court said earlier this year that calling someone "foreign swine" or "filthy asylum seeker" may be insulting, but because the expressions are widely used insults in the German language, they do not constitute racist attacks.
(12) Or embrace the filthy weather with something more extreme.
(13) "By all accounts, it was dark and filthy, with an old bus-seat in place of a sofa.
(14) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
(15) The drinking water tanks are so filthy the pupils bring their own water.
(16) In The God Delusion I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
(17) "Sanitary conditions at the prison are calculated to make the prisoner feel like a disempowered, filthy animal.
(18) When I was young, vegetarianism was still a cult activity practised by filthy, bendy-boned hippies or mawkishly sentimental teenage girls who would probably be keen to renege on the whole non-meat-eating deal if only they had the strength to lift a whole steak into a pan.
(19) It is also an inversion of the original New Labour platform, which sounded radical about society and the state – keen on new rights for gay people, keen on devolution, keen on human rights – but which was also fiercely pro-market and pro-City, "intensely relaxed" about people being "filthy rich".
(20) When I finally reached the top floor, the long corridor was filthy with dust that looked like it had accumulated over several months.