Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty. synonym: dirty.
- adjective Obscene or offensive.
- adjective Vile; nasty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or involved in filth; foul; dirty; noisome; nasty.
- Morally foul; defiled by sinful practices; polluted.
- Low; scurvy; contemptible; mean.
- Synonyms Dirty, Foul, etc. (see
nasty ); squalid. - Impure, corrupt, gross.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered with
filth ; verydirty . - adjective
Obscene oroffensive . - adjective Very unpleasant or disagreeable.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- adjective vile; despicable
- adjective characterized by obscenity
Etymologies
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Examples
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Shai (ph) captured these images on her phone of her father and what she described as a filthy hospital.
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Shai captured these images on her phone of her father as what she described as a filthy hospital.
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Shai captured these images on her phone of her father in what she described as a filthy hospital.
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Opposition officials said Tsvangirai had been held in what they described as a filthy, overcrowded cell.
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Another said it was an unacceptable attempt to exalt what he called a filthy past.
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Another said it was an unacceptable attempt to exalt what he called a filthy past.
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Ceres police detectives launched a criminal investigation after finding evidence of what they called a filthy and unsanitary home after two-year-old Aureliano Valdez died Sunday.
CBS13/CW31: Sacramento's Source For Breaking News, Weather and Traffic 2010
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Another said it was an unacceptable attempt to exalt what he called a filthy past.
British Blogs 2010
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After his arrest, Shaw was taken to a holding prison in Kabul which he described as filthy and reeking of sewage, but when the death threats began he was moved to the US-run Counter
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Ceres police detectives launched a criminal investigation after finding evidence of what they called a filthy and unsanitary home after two-year-old Aureliano Valdez died Sunday.
CBS13/CW31: Sacramento's Source For Breaking News, Weather and Traffic 2010
bilby commented on the word filthy
"But Professor Stanley Wells, author of Looking for Sex in Shakespeare, said: 'If the best thing you can say about a new edition is that it's filthy, it doesn't say a lot. It's a gimmick, an attempt to grab attention.'"
- David Smith, Bard's secret sex text message, guardian.co.uk, 26 March 2006.
February 9, 2009
Louises commented on the word filthy
The werewolf, a vampire has written, smells like the Platonic Form of a filthy animal. I wondered - as I had such liberty for wondering, while we sailed across the library - if vampires ever threw up. Throw up what, though? All they had was blood. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 23, 2012