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UK
/fˈɪlθi/
]
[ US /ˈfɪɫθi/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪɫθi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
characterized by obscenity
had a filthy mouth
smutty jokes
foul language -
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
a foul pond
a nasty pigsty of a room
as filthy as a pigsty -
vile; despicable
a dirty (or lousy) trick
a filthy traitor
How To Use filthy 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.
- Sometimes people don't just pick up the phone & ring Crimestoppers out of some sense of duty, but they will do it for filthy luker. 200 Weeks
- 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
- 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
- I must have cut a wretched figure, filthy and sunburnt, to the brother who heard my explanations about who I was and why I was here.