0 a place where there is a lot of a particular activity, usually something bad -- siedlisko, wylęgarnia
The government was a hotbed of corruption.
It provided a supply of new recruits but was at the same time a hotbed of dissent.
The introduction of these model homes had not had any effect on the incidence of relapsing fever, for the places were still hotbeds of the disease during winter.
Divisional chiefs struggled to become paramounts, and paramountcies were particular hotbeds of litigation.
Just as the western states were hotbeds of other democratizing reforms, such as the initiative, referendum, and female suffrage, they likewise embraced direct election of senators.
You have also the fact that street trading is a hotbed of criminality, and of the loafer and cadger.
The bracken plant is a hotbed of disease.
They have turned the trade unions of this country into hotbeds of political intrigue.
There are people who speak as if the county schools were hotbeds of immorality and atheism.
