filth
offensive or disgusting dirt or refuse; foul matter: the filth dumped into our rivers.
foul condition: to live in filth.
moral impurity, corruption, or obscenity.
vulgar or obscene language or thought.
Origin of filth
1Words Nearby filth
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use filth in a sentence
I mostly cherish the wonderful absurdity of an extremely long hike, the way you decide on day one of your excursion to forgo the comforts of civilized society and indulge pain and filth and hunger, then repeat said decision for, say, six months.
Peele’s UFO monster, then, can be read as making a moral judgment from on high of humanity’s obsession with money and spectacle—and raining down upon them filth and blood as punishment.
These deceptively powerful devices oscillate their scrubbers a staggering number of times per second to do away with tough mildew, stains, and filth stuck in hard-to-reach spaces.
Best spin scrubber: For floors so clean, they squeak | PopSci Commerce Team | March 16, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAdded to this was the misery of dust that billowed everywhere all the time, a compound of dirt and the dessicated filth of horses and dogs that got into your clothes, your house, your eyes, your mouth, sometimes your very soul.
The astounding brilliance and abiding joy of Mozart | Tim Page | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostTherefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead. | Abby Ohlheiser | August 26, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
With the money came the filth, and the contemptuous lewdness you see in the film are based on actual claims in the book.
The Real Wolf of Wall Street: Jordan Belfort’s Vulgar Memoirs | Jimmy So | December 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThat night, I dreamed of a square, three-story, concrete building that was dark and dingy with filth, dust, and cobwebs.
A Brigham Young University Professor’s Escape from Mormonism | Lynn K. Wilder | October 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAdapted from a book by the same author, filth has arrived with an identical swagger.
He tried to peddle this filth all over Washington, but not one member of Congress or one member of the press corps would touch it.
Tim Weiner: Shadows of J. Edgar Hoover in the Petraeus Affair | Tim Weiner | November 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe head of the BBC Trust, the former governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, described the allegations as a “tsunami of filth.”
BBC Scandal Blows Up as Director George Entwistle Resigns | Peter Jukes | November 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAmid the hush that followed, the stranger picked himself slowly up, and sought to wipe the filth from his face and garments.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniThere are poets and writers who see naught in war but carrion, filth, savagery and horror.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonA crust of bread and clear air are far preferable to luxuries enveloped in clouds of smoke and heaps of filth.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickBut then who is there that can bear so total a disguise as filth and untidiness spread over a woman?
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamThe tin glides over the greasy surface, noiselessly, smoothly, till the thick layer of filth is worn off.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
British Dictionary definitions for filth
/ (fɪlθ) /
foul or disgusting dirt; refuse
extreme physical or moral uncleanliness; pollution
vulgarity or obscenity, as in language
the filth derogatory, slang the police
Origin of filth
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse