noun
- a place that is infested with disease or regarded as a source of moral corruption
Usage: informal
Examples
- The overcrowded tenement was considered a pesthole by health inspectors.
- After the flood, the basement became a pesthole of mold and bacteria.
- The corrupt neighborhood was described as a pesthole of crime and vice.
- Reformers worked to clean up what they called the pesthole of the inner city.
- The abandoned building had become a pesthole attracting rats and disease.
- Historical accounts describe the prison as a pesthole where inmates rarely survived.