Augean stable

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of AUGEAN STABLE

a place of great vice and corruption <as a gubernatorial candidate he claimed that the state capitol was an Augean stable that desperately needed to be cleaned out>

Synonyms cesspool, Gomorrah, sink

Related Words tenderloin; den, dump, pigpen, pigsty; hellhole, hole

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