lavatorial

There was the door opening on the porch and beside it a small lavatorial compartment.

Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations.

It's a bit lavatorial and not very sophisticated."

It was the old space shuttle design, a lavatorial veteran of decades of spaceflight.

They have a lavatorial system - located often on hillocks - where dense concentrations of droppings can be seen.

Usually these second droppings are much more random and are not often confined to the widely-used lavatorial system.

Going to the bathroom, I wondered if there was any lavatorial situation Americans deemed too primitive for this dignified term.

Lucy, although turned on, was thinking more of her own lavatorial requirements and wondering whether she dared do what whe needed in public.

Discoursed on his lavatorial thinking in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596).

There has also been unpleasant speculation about his bathroom arrangements, in keeping with Britons' well-known lavatorial obsessions.

'We were the giggling lavatorial girls we've always been portrayed but somewhere there was a spark of maturity,' says Carolyn.

Every one of them saw a book as either a lavatorial accessory or a set of portable firelighters and thought that hygiene was a greeting.

It was necessary to deflect her from her pet subjects of pollution, Contemporary Cars and lavatorial lapses.

The firm's lavatorial equipment was manufactured at premises in nearby Marlborough Road (now Draycott Avenue).

I WAS disgusted to read Jane Gordon's comment that lavatorial advertising is a 'welcome trend towards honesty'.

Also, unlike EMU, MEMU trains include the utility of lavatorial facilities.

The most well-known,Sticky Wicket, which won backing from the publisher of the lavatorial Viz, did manage the nation-wide plunge but was flushed away after 12 issues.

Frequently boorish, always laughing at his own jokes, and intent on announcing his lavatorial visits to all and sundry, Tomlinson made Jim impossible to dislike.

On 17 January 2005 the programme was debated in parliament when Peter Luff (Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire) attacked it for its "lavatorial" content.

Michael Rosen's collection of Rude Rhymes (Signet, £3.99) sent to him over the years by members of the public are rather lavatorial - and that's probably the best place to keep it.

Ordinarily this lavatorial dereliction would have caught Captain Cullen's eye and vocabulary, but in the present his mind was filled with making westing, to the exclusion of all other things not contributory thereto.

It is not surprising, semantically speaking, that the word widened its meaning so quickly since it naturally lent itself (as did closet ) to the description of a solitary place, one where people performed lavatorial functions.

Clearly it is right for teaching staff to be sensitive about how banter concerning a child's appearance could be interpreted, but surely it's not beyond anyone's ken to tell a child firmly that lavatorial jibes are unacceptable.

And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.