Antonyms for ordure

Grammar : Noun

Spell : awr-jer, ‐dyoo r

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔr dʒər, ‐dyʊər

Definition of ordure

Origin : late 14c., from Old French ordure "filth, uncleanliness" (12c.), from ord, ort "filthy, dirty, foul," from Latin horridus "dreadful" (see horrid).

As in feces : noun excrement
As in droppings : noun excrement
As in dung : noun excrement
As in excrement : noun excretion
As in filth : noun dirt, pollution

Example sentences :

Unionism and order: Separatism and ordure—that is about the sum.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

But I have certain sensitive places in my soul: I do not like that word "ordure."
Extract from : « How He Lied to Her Husband » by George Bernard Shaw

The nobility had died, the aristocracy had marched to imbecility or ordure!
Extract from : « Against The Grain » by Joris-Karl Huysmans

The students laugh at him and make him tipsy; the street boys pelt him with ordure; the better cafes turn him from their doors.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

Ordure palpable and abominable was plentiful, and the swollen carcasses of small animals exhaled their biting wafts.
Extract from : « The Chequers » by James Runciman

Fox was at various times thrust into dungeons filled ankle-deep with ordure, and was shot at, beaten with stones and clubs, etc.
Extract from : « John Greenleaf Whittier » by W. Sloane Kennedy

Both strayed off upon the180 plain to gather the taquia, or ordure of the cattle, though no cattle were in sight.
Extract from : « Popular Adventure Tales » by Mayne Reid

The Anthidia have shown us how, in their cotton-wool wallets, they manufacture a sort of jewellery with their ordure.
Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre

Under its thick mantle of ordure the grub of the Lily-beetle escapes the troubles so fatal to its cousin of the asparagus.
Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre

Mr. Vincent tells me that they have a horror of cattle, and will not touch the ordure, or other products of the cow.
Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston

Synonyms for ordure

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