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filthy
[ fil-thee ]
adjective
- foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.
filthy language.
- contemptibly offensive, vile, or objectionable:
to treat one's friends in a filthy manner.
- (of money) abundantly supplied (often followed by with ):
They're filthy with money.
- Slang. (especially in sports) formidable: knocked down by a filthy right hook.
a young rookie with a filthy curveball;
knocked down by a filthy right hook.
verb (used with object)
- to make filthy; foul.
filthy
/ ˈfɪlθɪ /
adjective
- characterized by or full of filth; very dirty or obscene
- offensive or vicious
that was a filthy trick to play
- informal.extremely unpleasant
filthy weather
adverb
- extremely; disgustingly
filthy rich
Derived Forms
- ˈfilthiness, noun
- ˈfilthily, adverb
Other Words From
- filth·i·ly adverb
- filth·i·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- filthy rich, outrageously wealthy; very rich.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Suddenly, light flooded the room, and I found myself lying on a filthy orange sofa across the room from where my rape occurred.
At this point in his life, Denton has enough filthy lucre in his bank account to affect a certain lack of interest in the stuff.
You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation.
Step too far off the beaten path and you could be faced with diseased rodents and filthy insects.
During the heated contest versus Big Piney, Kane tells us that even the referee told him, “You guys are nothing but filthy slobs.”
No escape from the steadily rising flood of letters and files,—none from the swarms of filthy flies.
This strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings.
Who answered, and said to them that stood before him, saying: Take away the filthy garments from him.
In my new prison, black and filthy to an extreme, I sadly missed the society of my little dumb friend.
Dot claimed that one of those filthy tabloids had offered her that much for them—and what was a poor working-girl to do?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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