(v. t.) To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's almost as if I watched old Jethro Tull at the cash machine and leaned over his shoulder as he put his credit card into the machine to check out his PIN and filched his credit card form from his back pocket as he walked away and then fleeced his bank account."
(2) I stammered out a few one-liners I’d written, and a couple of bits about being short largely filched from Ronnie Corbett.
(3) They filch public funds and flush the effluent from their own monuments into the same local infrastructure they beggar with tax breaks and bond issues.
(4) Darling will rightly reject George Osborne's calls for immediate tax rises or cuts in public spending to reduce the budget deficit but he should consider filching the shadow chancellor's proposal for an Office of Budget Responsibility, only with a different mandate from that proposed by the Conservatives.
(5) As ever with Murdoch, there is a sound business reason for attacking a company that has filched so much advertising revenue from newspaper groups such as News UK (as well as other newspaper groups of course).
(6) The drum break on her 1979 album track Our Love was filched for the beginning of New Order's Blue Monday , who also put the epic Patrick Cowley mix of I Feel Love on their Back to Mine compilation.
(7) "The Fed's current policy is based on the same presumption as its policy in the decade prior to 2007, that the smart thing to do is to filch an advantage that has not been earned.
(8) But the filching is so affectionate that you can't resent it.
(9) Hilton wrote in the Observer : “Surely we should be fighting corruption in the world, not feeding it with fat contracts that filch the earnings of British taxpayers to fund the lavish lifestyles of sleazy Chinese elites.” Apart from human rights, the state visit may be overshadowed by a sharp slowdown in Chinese growth – something that is likely have a major impact on the global economy and especially on the UK, as the largest European investor in China and the largest destination in Europe for China’s outward investment.
(10) Photograph: Frank Martin It’s the same sense of fairness that means that, sometimes in the cracks, while writing about other things, he takes time to punctiliously acknowledge his influences – Alan Coren , for example, who pioneered so many of the techniques of short humour that Terry and I have filched over the years; or the glorious, overstuffed, heady thing that is Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and its compiler, t he Rev E Cobham Brewer , that most serendipitious of authors.
(11) Chaplin’s granddaughter Kathleen, a singer, was there with her seven-year-old son Jaydn – and said he was already filching her iPhone to make films.
(12) Yet again, the British Conservatives – equally seduced a few years ago by Australia’s tough, points based immigration system – have filched policy from their former colony (and major migrant outpost) – to score a few cheap, political points in the year before a tough election.
(13) We remember John Hersey’s Hiroshima dispatch ; we forget that he filched copy from a James Agee biography.
(14) I'm A Celebrity contestant Janice Dickinson called him the lowest form of pond scum, Radar magazine's profile on him was titled Sultan of Sleeze, while blogging site Gawker said he was a "schlocky managing editor of a thieving celebrity news conglomerate" and accused him of filching stories from the website Courthouse News Service and passing them off as their own.
Filth
Definition:
(n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
(n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
Example Sentences:
(1) And, of course, cities built on heavy industry had all the downsides of pollution, waste and filth.
(2) I recently discovered that I'm in The Filth and the Fury DVD eating cake and talking to Sid - my brother bought it me for Christmas.
(3) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(4) At its height he appeared to make light of the scandal using florid rhetoric, as he described the emerging revelations about sexual abuse as a "tsunami of filth".
(5) Filth and smoke hangs everywhere, clogging the very soul.
(6) "Don't worry," we say (and it is you and I) "keep them in as much filth as you like, we won't be asking any questions."
(7) Some Islamic traditions consider it blasphemous to make or show an image of the prophet, and Vilks's drawings were regarded as especially derogatory as dogs are a symbol of filth for many Muslims.
(8) A method has been developed for the isolation of light filth from food breadings.
(9) House fly pupae were suitable as hosts for U.rufipes at all ages; however, significantly higher parasitism occurred on host pupae aged 96-120 h. Parasite-induced mortality (host mortality without progeny production) was higher than for other pteromalid parasites of filth flies under similar conditions.
(10) James McAvoy was named best actor for his role in an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Filth.
(11) Everest base camp, a rocky plateau at 5,300m that is the starting point for climbing expeditions, has for years been the focus of clean-up operations after a series of stinging reports in the 1990s about rubbish and filth in what had once been pristine environments.
(12) During his press conference last week, Bo complained that critics had "poured filth" on him and his family.
(13) [McClure was directed by Madonna in her 2008 film Filth and Wisdom ] Yeah!
(14) Aside from the sheer filth factor, not washing your jeans means they will lose their shape (two words: baggy arse), smell and look dirty, because they are dirty.
(15) The method has been adopted official first action for extraction of light filth from whole leaves of alfalfa, papaya, and spearmint.
(16) Results are reported for a collaborative study of a method for the extraction of light filth from spirulina (a blue-green alga) powder and tablets.
(17) Collaborative results are presented for a proposed method for light filth extraction from ground beef or hamburger.
(18) *** Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.’ A landfill in Bhopal, India.
(19) Air pollution: a dark cloud of filth poisons the world’s cities Read more Much of the polluted air has drifted in from continental Europe and has been trapped by the cold air which is now spread over eastern England.
(20) The present official first action method for the isolation of light filth from fig and fruit paste, 44.083(a), occasionally yields excessive plant debris on filter papers, which causes difficulty in effectively counting insect filth.