1. Plural of ordure; feces or excrement, especially of animals.
Usage: formal or literary; often used in a figurative sense to mean something foul or disgusting

Examples

• The stable was covered with ordures from the horses.
• He spoke of his rival's behavior as nothing but ordures and lies.
• The street cleaners removed the ordures left by the animals.
• The poet used ordures as a metaphor for moral corruption.
• Medieval cities struggled with the accumulation of ordures in their streets.