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US
/ˈfɪɫθ/
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[ UK /fˈɪlθ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪlθ/ ]
NOUN
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
- the state of being covered with unclean things
How To Use filth In A Sentence
- Those tiny little felt guys that I made for Amelia just before she was born have been loved a little and have ended up filthy and terribly pilled.
- But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Think Progress » IRS building in Utah evacuated, two employees taken out on stretchers after reports of white powder.
- I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
- They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them. Times, Sunday Times
- We live in a world soiled by the grossness and wickedness and filth of sin.
- Our foreign correspondent reports that conditions in the refugee camps are filthy and overcrowded.
- There was no water to drink or wash in and children were begging, dressed in filthy rags.
- In my unwashed condition, I would only make them filthy again.
- Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
- The cinema itself was pretty filthy, with popcorn strewn across the floor. The Sun